Karen Tung wrote:
> A group of students from the Colorado School of Mines is interested to
> work
> on a Text-based installer for Open Solaris.
>
> Just like all other redesign projects that's going on, I want to start
> by formulating
> a problem statement, and discuss the "features" we want to see in the
> text installer.
> So, let's not focus on the implementation details until we agree on
> the goal of the project.
>
> In my opinion, the text installer should:
>
> - work on both x86 and sparc
> - offer a similar installation experience and feature set as the
> existing slim GUI installer
Should it offer a similar installation experience? What does this mean?
Is the target audience for the text installer the same as the target
audience for the GUI installer (I would say that it's not). In that
case, the experience - and feature set - should be tailored to the text
installer's anticipated user base.
> - the installation performance shouldn't defer too much from the GUI
> installer. (ie: if it
> takes 20 minutes to install via GUI, it should take about the same
> amount of time to install
> via the text installer)
Can we define "same amount of time"? Would that be within 10%? No more
than twice as long? Does installation time include the time the user
spends selecting options, or just the time spent moving bits?
> - memory requirement to do the installation (256mb?? 128mb??)
>
> Please share your thoughts and opinions on this.
>
> Thanks,
>
> --Karen
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