On Tue, May 26, 2009 at 9:17 PM, Shawn Walker <swalker at opensolaris.org> wrote: > Jim Walker wrote: >> >> Anon Y Mous wrote: >>> >>> However, Indiana could become the dominant server operating system in >>> most data centers AND generate lots of revenue for Sun in terms of >>> support subscriptions and Sun hardware purchases if we just had a >>> simple text based installer that allowed you to add a static IP >>> address during the install and not have to spend four hours after the >>> install trying to disable and uninstall the gnome desktop, fiddle >>> around disabling NWAM, use vi to edit the /etc/hostname.interface, >>> /etc/inet/netmasks, ?/etc/defaultrouter, /etc/hosts, >>> /etc/nsswitch.conf, and /etc/resolv.conf files etc. >>> >> ... >>> >>> So the question is. Will the Cayman installer in 2009.06 allow users >>> to assign static IP addresses during the installation process? >> >> Anon brings up a good point (maybe already discussed) >> >> Are there plans to add an option at install time to >> enter the static IP network information in a future >> dev release? > > Why does it need to be done during the install process? > > Why not at first boot?
It is already easy via the already existing configuration GUI _after_ installation. When you launch it it asks the user if she wants to switch to manual configuration versus auto-magic (and vice versa, after a change, accordingly). IMO it would be sufficient to launch this GUI automatically on 1st boot (via a temporary or permanent SMF service without or with additional configuration file setting in /etc). I also have another idea: Printing. Presto does a great job etc. And we have the Java based /usr/sbin/printmgr LP printmgr GUI for Solaris LP as well as the new gtk based CUPS config utility. But the latter lacks much of the customizability that you would get via http://localhost:631 . For US-Letter this may not be problematic. But Europeans use A4. In case of a mismatch the printer's LCD prints the error message "Insert US-Letter paper" and waits forever. Previously you could specify the paper size on a per-print-job-basis when printing from Desktop apps like Mozilla/FF. Now not anymore. I doubt many average Desktop users know about http://localhost:631 (and by the way, on my box I cannot even reach it despite docs recommending this, such as the OS Bible, I just found that not daemon or SMF service matching the substring "cups" is running, what is going on?). Here now my suggestion, if it hasn't already been proposed or done earlier: Some pointer to http://localhost:631 should make it into the Gnome_Menu. Except some reason I'm overlooking speaks against it. Just a suggestion I wanted to bring up for somebody to consider. Maybe this should be asked on desktop-discuss or over at presto? %martin
