Sue Sohn wrote: > Sundar Yamunachari wrote: >> Susan Sohn 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. >>> >>> Thanks, >>> Sue >>> _______________________________________________ >>> caiman-discuss mailing list >>> caiman-discuss at opensolaris.org >>> http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/caiman-discuss >> Sue, >> >> Section 1.2: What is meant by "server installations"? > > We just meant it to mean an installation of OpenSolaris onto a server > (vs. a desktop). >> >> Section 1.4.3: Does this means that the system installed using text >> installer will be different from the system installed using GUI >> installed and AI? Does the media contains all the software needed for >> the server installation? > > Yes, that is what it means. Yes, the media would contain all of the > software needed for installation. > >> Section 2.3: Can the user login to the system when the installation >> is going on? > > Yes, it is desired that the user would be able to login to the system > during the installation if ssh is enabled. We will need to look into > how to do this for sparc. > >> Section 3.4.5: Can you add the Solaris partition information such as >> "Only Solaris partition can be created and only one Solaris partition >> is allowed per disk" > > Yes, we'll note this, as well as noting that we will also be allowed > to create an extended partition in the future. > >> Section 3.4.6: Are you planning to list slice 2, 8 and 9? The user >> cannot change them. > > Will need to reconfirm with Frank what the intent is here. The intent is to list only existing slices, not all possible slices. The "whole disk" (backup) slice is #2 by convention, but not required. Is there a need to list it? Should we create it by default if it does not exist?
Frank > >> Section 3.4.7: What is meant by "It is TBD whether the text installer >> should reconfigure the microroot environment after installation"? > > Included in my earlier response to Karen this morning. > >> Section 3.4.12: The statement "The default value will be the language >> selected while booting" is confusing. Do you mean the language chosen >> for the installation? > > Updated to: > > This defaults to the language chosen for use during installation. > >> Section 4: "x86 LiveCD additions" -- Section 1.2 mentions that the >> primary target is server installations. What does this deliverable mean? > > Although the primary target is server installations, it is also > thought to be desirable to provide the text installer on the livecd, > for desktop users. > >> Section 5.2: This scenario assumes that the desktop always has more >> packages than the server. Is that always true? Also one of the reason >> for using the text installer is that the machine doesn't have network >> access. How can it access repo to install additional packages? > > The desktop may not have more packages in total than the server, but > it will have additional packages that a server doesn't need, such as > packages to support a gnome desktop environment. We will change the > word "additional" to "supplemental" to clarify. It was unintentional > that this scenario implied that the user didn't have network access. > This will be corrected in the spec. > > Thank you for your comments, > Sue > >
