Alok Aggarwal wrote:
>
> 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?
Yes. The assumption for a bootable AI was that it would install a liveCD
set of packages (as the VMC project needed a self-contained AI, that
didn't access IPS). So the bootable AI would be, in my assumption, based
off the liveCD (in terms of installed packages).
>
> I think here again we need to clarify requirements
> from the VMC project.
>
> Alok
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