On Tue, Feb 28, 2017 at 10:35 PM, Dan McDonald <dan...@omniti.com> wrote:
> > > On Feb 28, 2017, at 5:22 PM, Peter Tribble <peter.trib...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > > > Dan, > > <SNIP!> > > > Ok, some comments (I'm wearing 2 hats here, one as an omnios > > customer, the other as someone who's actually written an installer): > > > > Overall, I think I prefer it to Caiman. But then I was never a > > fan of Caiman, it was all so slow and klunky. > > > > The ISO is, how can I say this, rather bigger than before. > > Yes. This is because I wanted to get it running first. > > I will note that if I used 7z instead of bzip2, I can shrink the ZFS image > that lives in the ISO. > > > Right, so you've dropped the good old solaris.zlib approach > > Oddly enough, solaris.zlib uses 7z, IIRC. > Well, lzma or gzip. I use gzip in Tribblix because lzma didn't give me a noticeable benefit and gzip was much quicker. > > looks like a 64-bit only ISO. (The image you install is dual > > 32/64-bit though.) > > OmniOS officially only supports 64-bit installs. That we still provide a > 32-bit one is an artifact of limited resources, not a statement of > direction. > I just think you should be consistent. > > The root archive is uncompressed. You could make the iso smaller > > by gzipping the root archive. > > Can boot_archive be compressed? I didn't think it could. > It's normally gzipped. (Without the extension.) > > The root archive doesn't need the root reserve or anything like as > > many inodes, which can save you quite a lot of space. > Another benefit from gzipping the root archive is that the empty space on the ufs filesystem compresses away really well... > > The loader menu on the ISO ought to have a 'boot from disk' option > > that's removed for the installed system. > > Interesting idea. I'll make note of that. > Thanks. > > You probably want to be able to control the name of the initial BE > > you create (think of the case of installing into an older system that > > already has omnios installed). > > Currently no installer does this. I don't want to go down the path of > feeping-creaturism unless it's a huge win. One user != huge. > I mentioned this because we see this request crop up for OI fairly regularly. Essentially, how do I reinstall a broken system without losing all my data? (And I implemented it for Tribblix a while back.) Your quick-networking idea is something I've been considering in a > different context --> full DHCP-node install. Basically, the media runs, > guesses disks and interfaces, slaps bits, tells new bits to DHCP and DNS, > and it's one-button install. Again, I want to beware of > feeping-creaturism, though. > Oh, I'm not saying you need to implement all this, or do it today; but thinking about possible scenarios means you don't paint yourself into a corner. Thanks, -- -Peter Tribble http://www.petertribble.co.uk/ - http://ptribble.blogspot.com/
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