Hi Narendra, Thank you for your comments.
> A very nice demo indeed and lot of improvement over the current one. > I tried it and felt happy to see the visual improvements and now have > a few clarifications to ask: > 1. Right now nothing happens on pressing the "Help" button. > So, after the cayman comes out, will clicking this button pops out > a help window or the help message will occupy the current screen? Certainly we will have help text when the product is integrated. As for a separate help screen, I don't know the answer to that. I would assume so, but I will let Niall or Frank give you that info. > 2. In the summary screen, if I need to make any changes, I will have > to go back and make changes. > It will be good, if I have a choice to correct it here itself. > And also, this screen is not showing the "Hostname" typed in the > previous screen. We will not have the ability to make changes via the summary screen with Dwarf. Certainly, it is something we want to add, but it will happen in a follow on Caiman project. The missing hostname is an artifact of the fact that we added the ability to set the hostname late in the design cycle. We will fix this. > 3. Progress Bar is only showing a filling bar. > It will be helpful, if it also shows the percentage over and the > time remaining to complete. We will show the percentage done in the progress bar. The time remaining is still up for debate. We ha > 4. Will there be any choice to select the filesystem or is it only ZFS? Actually, for Dwarf it is only UFS. ZFS will come with the next project. And, support for UFS will be removed. > And there is no information regarding the "File System" that is > going to be installed on the partition screen. Not sure what you are asking for here. We don't allow customization of filesystem layout in Dwarf. We will lay out the filesystems for you with an initial install. > 5. In the "Date and Time" screen, will the user be allowed use his > mouse and click on the map to select his timezone? No, likely not. We want to put in the interactive map, but it is a lot of work and we will likely not have time to make this feature available for Dwarf. It is planned for a future project. > 6. First screen doesn't have any heading/label. Yep, I noticed that as well. We will fix. > 7. In the sysid screen, we are asking for a "Hostname". > But, what if the user wants to go for DHCP and I don't see any > choice with DHCP/Static Address! Yes, we will allow setting of the hostname but the system will be configured initially as non-networked. We will make use of NWAM(Network Auto Magic) and enable that to startup on first reboot. This will automatically configure the network interface using DHCP. > So, are we assuming that this is a standalone install? Yes. Thanks again for taking the time to look at the demo. sarah
