Sarah Jelinek wrote: > Hi Sue, > > Some comments on disk selection proposals: >> Proposed Functional Design for Default Disk Selection >> ----------------------------------------------------- >> One disk on x86 system >> a) Look for solaris2 partition to use. If found, use it and create vtoc >> b) If partitions exist, but no solaris2 partition exists, but there is >> space for creating solaris2 >> partition, create it and use it. >> c1) If partitions exist, but no solaris2 partition exists, and no >> space exists to create one, ask user >> if they want to use whole disk or use a partition on disk (list the >> partitions). If partition is chosen, >> use it and make solaris 2 partition. Or user could quit and do >> fdisk/format. >> > > How exactly would we ask the user? I am a bit uncomfortable with this > approach since it is supposed to be a hands off install. Which means we > automatically succeed or we automatically fail. I would think the text > based installer would be used, eventually, in the event a user wants an > interactive install experience. > > Baking in behavior that requires user input in some scenarios seems > contrary to what we want to provide with AI. >
More directly: it doesn't meet the requirements. Automated installations must succeed (or fail) entirely without interactive input. Is there any way in which this requirement is unclear? Dave
