On Mon, 6 Jul 2009, Karen Tung wrote: >>>> b) Assuming some of these installers get delivered as >>>> part of the same AI image, how should the selection >>>> between which installer to use be made? The two obvious >>>> choices are to provide them via the GRUB menu or as a >>>> separate menu item that comes up as part of boot (kind of >>>> like the keyboard and language selection menu in the >>>> current LiveCD installer). I think one of the underlying >>>> requirement here is to allow this to be scriptable. Also, >>> Can you expand on what needs to be scriptable? >> >> The selection of which installer to pick needs to be >> scriptable. In the case of the VMC project, I think >> it needs to be able to specify booting AI from media >> without user intervention. >> >> Alok > If this is the requirement we need to satisfy, I don't think > we need to solve it with scripting. VMC project will be > creating the "bootable AI image". > If we allow the selection via GRUB, the "booting AI from media" > option can be made the default option or even the only option > during the process of creating this "bootable AI image". > That way, when the image is booted, that option is automatically > selected.
There's an assumption here that a "bootable AI iso" will be a separate entity from the current AI iso. Is there any reason that the current AI iso can't be made bootable with the end result being that we have a single AI image? I think here again we need to clarify requirements from the VMC project. Alok
