casper....@sun.com wrote:
The point is that they don't *need* or have to be in the installer.
They're just as beneficial and useful at firstboot, in a Visual Panel,
or somewhere else. There is no overwhelmingly great reason to force
them to be part of the install process. Installation should be about
installation and the minimum amount of configuration to get the system
going. Anything beyond that is a pollution of the process IMO.
Our customers want an "hands-off" install; an install which can be
customized to a point where the system reboots and nothing needs to
be done.
"Visual panels" do not work when you need to install 100s of systems.
The fact that you are required to configure a system after it is installed
is a bug. Any system which requires post-install configuration is broken
to a point that is not usable.
Just a thought, couldn't you use a USB Stick to save configuration
files, so the next 99 installs take data from there?
Paul
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