On 08/09/11 15:47, Neal Pollack wrote:
On 8/9/2011 9:31 AM, Seth Goldberg wrote:
That then begs the question of how driver updates would be added to a S11
system. The mechanism is still rather useful, especially for our oem partners.
Our OEM partners, especially HP and DELL, have typically sold RAID
controller options
that lack a device driver on Solaris boot media. Some form of
boot-time/install-time
driver update mechanism is critical to permit a driver to be loaded that
would permits
the disks to be see by the installer.
If we can not support ITU in time for S11, then a less happy work-around
is telling those
customers how to create a customized AI netinstall image. If this is
true, then I need
to be told, so we can make it a priority project for Update 1 to devise
a suitable
Driver Update mechanism.
Comments?
As I said, the consumption ITU's can work, but has been lightly tested.
You have to boot the media and then manually apply the ITU.
Customers will generally get more consistently positive results
creating custom media with Distribution Constructor if they have more
than a couple such machines to deploy; the couple of hours it takes to
generate such a thing pays back pretty quickly. We've been providing
that message since day 1 of the OpenSolaris releases.
Dave
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