Alok Aggarwal wrote: > Hi Karen, > > On Mon, 6 Jul 2009, Karen Tung wrote: > >> Alok Aggarwal wrote: >>> Currently the Caiman architecture supports two types >>> of installers - a LiveCD based GUI and AI. Each of these installation >>> environments are different in that >>> one is a desktop based environment while the other is >>> not. As a result, they are both built on a different >>> set of packages with AI being built on a significantly >>> smaller set. >>> >>> As we provide more installation environments in the future >>> (text based interactive install, a media based AI and possibly a >>> network based text install), I think there are a couple of high order >>> issues that need to be sorted out. >> >> Another high order issue that you didn't >> list is the user experience. >> >> - Do we include different installers in the same media? Or do we >> have a media for each installer type? Or only include a few >> installers on the same media? > > I didn't call it out specifically but that's > what I was thinking. See one of the follow on > mails. > >>> a) What kind of an image should these new installers >>> (text, media based AI) be based on? Since both these >>> installers are not going to offer a desktop installation >>> environment, does it make sense to base them on the >>> same set of packages as AI? I think it would be a >>> reasonable starting point. >> For installers that does not require the desktop, the >> set of packages used for building the AI image >> sounds like a reasonable starting point. > > I agree except for a media based text installer which > does not support installting from IPS, I think we need > the LiveCD set of packages. Not to bring up the desktop > but to provide a reasonable installed system.
I think you'll want both cases. In other words, the text installer (IMO) should be available on the LiveCD for users that can't boot to the graphical desktop or use the graphical installer. However, I think you also need a separate, minimal CD that lets you perform network-based text-based installs. Cheers, -- Shawn Walker
