Hi Dave, > Sarah Jelinek wrote: >> Hi All, >> >> Located at: >> >> http://www.opensolaris.org/os/project/caiman/auto_install/AI_Reqs_Final/ >> >> Are an updated set of AI project requirements. These have been >> modified from the initial set sent out and reviewed a few months >> back. Some requirements have been clarified, some have been removed >> or reworded. Those that are specifically different are marked with a >> **. The requirements were revisited based on the initial discussion >> we had on this alias and the data we gathered during the prototyping >> work we did for AI. >> >> The old, initial requirements list is here: >> >> http://www.opensolaris.org/os/project/caiman/auto_install/auto_requirements/ >> >> >> Please review and comment. The date for closure on comments for the >> AI requirements is one week from tomorrow, Friday, June 20th, noon PT. >> > > 3.2: it's not the language syntax, but the profile and rules that > you're verifying. > Yes, will change. > 4.1: "complete automation support" leaves much to the imagination and > room for differing interpretations. I'd be more specific about what > this means. > I think we have discussed this in subsequent emails. We are trying to say that AI won't barf or do the wrong thing, and we won't offer a text based installer to ask the remaining questions, if some of the required data is missing. This is 'all automated' all the time. And, if critical data is missing we will not perform the install. We will however default on some things, like default locale, if we can.
> 4.3: We're not providing upgrade in the interactive installer. Why do > we provide it here? > I think we need to provide it here. The interactive installer targets a different audience than AI does. Maybe it is the term 'upgrade' as opposed to 'update'. I intend this to mean that we will allow for 'updating' the system to the latest pkgs in the ips repo, via key,value pair specification. I think enterprise customers would want this to manage their servers. > 10.1: I don't see why the "IPS installation affects performance" item > is here. Let's take a crack at some target performance soon, though, > as we need real criteria to judge against. Performance from a server > on a gigabit network, for example, should be better than installation > from the CD. > Ok, fair enough. I will remove this. I do think that on all sides of the install, cd with cpio, and ips, there are many, many factors that can affect performance. Fast CDrom drive, slow network, vice versa, heavy traffic on network, etc... To clarify the areas we need to look at with regard to performance: -Client boot over network -network speed and load -ramdisk size -ips pkg installations > 10.2: I don't understand what a "low-memory distribution" is meant to be. > It means the minimal system memory configuration image. So, we will have an image that runs in 512M to allow users without the big honkin systems to install OpenSolaris. I will reword to clarify this. thanks, sarah *** > Dave >
