Bart Smaalders wrote: > Peter Tribble wrote: > > >> 10.1 Must be *much* faster than LiveCD. Must be significantly faster than >> current jumpstart too. Need to set some realistic targets. We know how long >> it >> should take - 5 minutes would be a reasonable target. >> >> > > That's laying down ~2.2 GB of software... doable, but a 100Mb LAN is > marginal > and if you allocate any more than a minute to boot you won't make it. > > I installed the AI image, plus IPS pkgs on my 100Mb LAN, with the IPS repo on my install server and the actually installation part, minus the Gnome postrun stuff, was faster than the liveCD. >> 10.2 Need to be much more aggressive here. I don't see any reason why 256M >> shouldn't be the target. I might accept 384. The bulk of available systems >> out >> there are still 512M. Sun are still selling 512M machines. And you need to >> allow >> some room for graphics stealing and headroom. And then there's >> virtualization, >> so you want the footprint as low as possible to cram as many VMs onto a >> server >> as you can. >> >> > > It's not clear that focusing on ultra low memory systems is worthwhile > here; VM's > seem much easier to provision in other ways such as a prebuilt disk > image, or > creating a custom disk image as desired. VMs tend to be cookie cutter; > there's > little need to select a profile based on attributes of the VM's hardware.... > > Good points. As I noted we are focusing on 512M lower limit at this time. This is more than doable based on the AI prototypes.
thanks, sarah **** > - Bart > > > > > > >
