Hi Glenn, On 07/10/09 16:02, Glenn Lagasse wrote: > Hi Sue, > > * Susan Sohn (Susan.Sohn at Sun.COM) wrote: >> I have posted the functional specification for the Text Installer at: >> >> http://www.opensolaris.org/os/project/caiman/TextInstallerProject/spec_v1 >> >> Please review and provide comments by Tuesday, July 14, at 5pm Pacific. > > 1.5 Supported Configurations > > Do we really need to keep the memory requirement at 512M for a purely > text based install? It would seem to me that we could get by > comfortably with a lot less than what we require for a gui install.
Per Dave's response, this isn't considered a priority. > 5.3 Scenario Three > > Could you be more specific about what hardware driver incompatibilities > would cause the liveCD to fail to boot but still allow an installation > from the same media using a text installer? That doesn't sound right to > me. If the liveCD can't boot, how can you run a text installer from it? > I suspect what you meant was that the liveCD boots, but the Desktop GUI > fails to start thus rendering the GUI installer useless (modulo ssh > x-forwarding tricks). I can see the text installer being an useful > fallback in that case. Yes, you are right in that it isn't a booting issue, but a desktop gui issue. We will change the wording in the spec to make this clearer. > Otherwise, looks great. Thanks a lot for your comments, Sue > Cheers, >
