On Wed, May 13, 2009 at 09:25:53PM -0400, Dave Miner wrote: > Danek Duvall wrote: >> There's a choice of curses vs terminal (line-by-line). Both may be >> required, in case the terminal can't be set up enough for curses to be >> happy. > > What evidence do we have that such a problem persists today? I haven't > run into anything that couldn't do curses in decades. As I recall, > Solaris ttinstall is purely curses, too.
I thought curses wouldn't handle running on the age-old sun and sun-color terminals properly. If we can get rid of those and have the console terminal emulation do something a bit more featureful, then I'd agree that we could probably skip anyone coming in off serial console hooked up to, say, a sun terminal. >> Also, I'd really like to see the text installer run from an already >> installed OpenSolaris instance, so I can do an install on another drive >> or partition. > > That's always been envisioned, which is why we don't remove the GUI from > the installed system, but I'd like to hear more about your anticipated use > case, if you can elaborate. Well, one of the things I always wanted with LU was to install onto an ABE without upgrading -- just clear everything away, copy key configuration over, and reboot. Especially after BFU. Of course, BFU will be going away, but I'm sure folks will want to break their rpool mirror and reinstall from time to time. Also, the situation I'm in right now, where I want to change my root drive, but not have to boot off of slow media to do something that really ought to be doable from where I am. Of course, to bolster that, what we really want is the substrate stuff Stephen, Dan, and I were talking about a year or so ago, where you'd be able to lift an image from one physical location and put it down on another (p2p, a la p2v). I'm looking at a small part of that problem right now, but it probably needs to be looked at in more depth. Still, likely a corner case, and so reasonably low priority. Danek
