On Thu, 9 Jul 2009, Karen Tung wrote: > I believe the purpose of network based boot (no AI) is to solve > the problem of machines being rebooted automatically, and we > don't want those machines to be installed. That's what the link Alok > gave at the end of his email refer to. > > As for whether the text installer should be included or not, I wonder > whether it is worth including the text installer if the text installer > doesn't have the capability to install from IPS. Since the initial > release of the text installer will only do cpio-style install of the > content of the image, and the AI image has very limited content. > would copying just those content be useful for people? > Probably for those that wants the "minimal OS"
There are some tradeoffs either way. http://www.opensolaris.org/os/project/caiman/TextInstallerProject/media.options.txt/ I think it comes down to what the target audience for the x86 media based text installer actually is and what the various use cases are. And, I'm not sure I have an answer to either of those questions. Alok
