On Fri, 1 Sep 2006, Dave Miner wrote:
> Justin Zygmont wrote:
>> On Thu, 31 Aug 2006, Alan DuBoff wrote:
>>
>>> On Thursday 31 August 2006 12:48 pm, Dave Miner wrote:
You need a toolkit with which to implement a GUI. For better or worse,
Java represents the richest environment for doin
On Fri, 2006-09-01 at 20:59 -0500, Mike Gerdts wrote:
> I am almost 100% sure that the
> modification of one half of the mirror has been the source of several
> panics in my (sparc) environment. (These improper updates could be
> happening from maintenance activities performed while booted from
On 8/31/06, Sarah Jelinek wrote:
> Adrian Florea wrote:
> > I think is doing this because the / filesystem is
> > built on top of a metadevice (that is a mirror)
> > consisting of a single submirror (i.e. built on a
> > single slice).
> >
> Actually, the 1 way mirror shouldn't matter. A 1 way mirr
On Friday 01 September 2006 02:24 pm, Bill Sommerfeld wrote:
> On Fri, 2006-09-01 at 13:57 -0700, Mike Pogue wrote:
> > I propose that OpenSolaris create an audio "identity" for install/boot
> > time.
>
> I nominate a excerpt from John Cage's (in)famous 4'33"
>
> (for those not familiar with it, it
On Friday 01 September 2006 01:57 pm, Mike Pogue wrote:
> I propose that OpenSolaris create an audio "identity" for install/boot
> time. I'm sure that you have heard these before -- it's the WindowsXP boot
> sound, or the Macintosh "everything is OK" sound. I believe that both SuSE
> and Ubuntu ha
Frank Ludolph wrote:
> You know, violating expectations here wouldn't be a
> bad thing, I don't
> think, in particular if the page were well designed
> and the less
> used/needed options were below the fold, or perhaps
> if we had other
> more creative solutions.
I missed this previously, but saw
On Friday 01 September 2006 07:08 am, Dave Miner wrote:
> But to go back to part of Alan's mail, the current install actually only
> uses Java for the GUI; everything else is in C or shell scripts. I'm
> doubtful that we'll continue to use the existing SDK for the GUI in
> implementing the new one
On Fri, 2006-09-01 at 14:28 -0700, Adrian Florea wrote:
> An initial set of questions made of:
>
> - hostname
> - IP addr
> - netmask
> - default router
These can be cut down dramatically, to either "obtain an address
automatically? Y/N" question, or, post-nwam, "Use these parameters I
just auto
On Fri, 2006-09-01 at 13:57 -0700, Mike Pogue wrote:
> I propose that OpenSolaris create an audio "identity" for install/boot time.
I nominate a excerpt from John Cage's (in)famous 4'33"
(for those not familiar with it, it's an avant-garde piece consisting of
4 minutes and 33 seconds of silence
Programmer, SysAdmin
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Mike Pogue wrote:
> You know, I don't think that this one is *only* an install question -- it's
> probably a "boot" issue, too, maybe a *UI look & feel* issue. But, since
> all the cool UI designers seem to hang out here, I'll post it here for
> discussion :-)
>
> I propose that OpenSolaris
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Gregory Shaw wrote:
>>>
>> This is something we are thinking about and working on. The flow of
>> control in our existing GUI, specifically the sysid questions for
>> installation is clearly broken. We don't need to ask so many questions
>> for Solaris installation. A lot of it can be gleaned fr
On Fri, 1 Sep 2006, Sarah Jelinek wrote:
> I assume you are talking about Solaris installer? If so, I agree. It is
> silly to ask so many unnecessary questions and more than once. This is
> one of the areas where we can and should reduce the number of questions.
> It struck me as well that the oth
I think install can have multiple predefined profiles
so first set of questions can be reduced for a
non-expert user. An initial set of questions made of:
- hostname
- IP addr
- netmask
- default router
- root password
can be enough for a quick install. Of course that
there is another question (
You know, I don't think that this one is *only* an install question -- it's
probably a "boot" issue, too, maybe a *UI look & feel* issue. But, since all
the cool UI designers seem to hang out here, I'll post it here for
discussion :-)
I propose that OpenSolaris create an audio "identity" f
p://blogs.sun.com/roller/page/ssnkumar
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Alan DuBoff wrote:
...
> The Solaris "Upgrade" is really painful. Install is slow, but Upgrade seems
> to
> take a lot longer as it removes and installs the packages, AFAIKT.
>
> Upgrade might be a seperate issue in itself, but it is a part of the install
> and can't be ignored.
>
Yes, it's s
On Fri, 1 Sep 2006, Dave Miner wrote:
> Ultimately, this part of the discussion is trying to solve the wrong
> problem up front: note your assumption, "given the number of questions
> we have". The primary problem in the graphical install is the amount
> and complexity of input required to achiev
Chris wrote:
> On Fri, 1 Sep 2006, Dave Miner wrote:
>
>
>> Ultimately, this part of the discussion is trying to solve the wrong
>> problem up front: note your assumption, "given the number of questions
>> we have". The primary problem in the graphical install is the amount
>> and complexity of
>Adrian Florea wrote:
>> it will not work on 256 MB.
>> i wanted to do this on my home PC and it failed.
>> after adding more RAM it was OK (up to 384) but still
>> very slow.
>>
>
>At this point I don't believe we've formally stated that 256 MB isn't
>supported, though the Solaris Express rele
Justin Zygmont wrote:
> On Thu, 31 Aug 2006, Alan DuBoff wrote:
>
>> On Thursday 31 August 2006 12:48 pm, Dave Miner wrote:
>>> You need a toolkit with which to implement a GUI. For better or worse,
>>> Java represents the richest environment for doing so on Solaris, in my
>>> opinion. It isn't
(Narendra_Kumar.S.S, ssnkumar at gmail.com" wrote:
> As for the single scrollable page, given the number of questions we
> have, the single page will become very long! So, having a single window
> with tabs can be used to avoid this. And we can have labels to each tab,
> which can be viewed fro
> Frank Ludolph wrote:
> >
> You know, violating expectations here wouldn't be a
> bad thing, I don't
> think, in particular if the page were well designed
> and the less
> used/needed options were below the fold, or perhaps
> if we had other
> more creative solutions.
I agree. While I do not li
So, if JAVA is only being used for the GUI, and isn't part of the slow response
issues, is it perhaps part of the large memory requirement? If not, what is? I
can't see the (Open)Solaris miniroot taking up more memory than the SUSE-based
JDS used running GNOME, Netscape, and Scribus all at once.
Frank Ludolph wrote:
>
> Alan DuBoff wrote:
>> This is one of the things I hate about the current install. Why it can't ask
>> all the questions it does in a single dialog that scrolls down so I can edit
>> all of them on one page, I don't know.
> There are several reasons:
>
> * Some qu
Chris wrote:
> I do like the look of the SuSE installer, with the navigation menu on the
> right hand side. I'd imagine that something similar could be done using
> the graphical installer. Maybe OpenSolaris could have a menu tree like
> so...
Yes, I like SuSE too--it's clean without omitting
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