On 2/1/07, Sarah Jelinek <Sarah.Jelinek at sun.com> wrote: > > With no choice? What if that's the wrong choice? How does > > a user who can't use that change it? > > > You can choose the non Solaris Express, Developer Edition path on the > grub menu. This project only replaces that installation experience.
Oh I see. How does this work on sparc? Or is grub boot on sparc a prerequisite? > >> Will provide for preservation of existing data > > > > How? Is this an upgrade, leaving the data in place, or > > is there some other means? > > > No, it means leaving data in place, like data in your /export. Not OS > specific data, but other data you want to preserve. We won't overwrite that. Is this assuming a separate partition for that data? > The target audience is supposed to be developers. The idea is the lower > the barriers to installing Solaris for laptop/x86 users, and get them up > and running with the development tools they need. Your point about > SUNWCxall being too heavyweight is valid. What would you suggest as the > default cluster we should install for this target audience? I don't think any of the existing metaclusters are suitable. In fact, the metaclusters need to be changed so they become useful. I think you actually want to define a specific install profile for this case. > And, what > type of default network settings should be consider for developers? I think you need to keep the dhcp as the default, but have some escape route just in case it goes wrong. Either that, or a simple and obvious network reconfiguration widget available when logged in. And as you've mentioned laptop users, make sure that the tools they need for mobility are included. > Keep in mind that that user can choose the traditional installation path > and configure their filesystem layout and network settings if they > choose. They just won't get the developer tools. These can be installed > later however. Why that separation? Presumably they're on the media already? (And I realize that the existing installer's way of picking up extra repositories to install from is enough to put anybody off, but surely that can be fixed.) -- -Peter Tribble http://www.petertribble.co.uk/ - http://ptribble.blogspot.com/
