On 07/13/09 17:13, Sundar Yamunachari wrote: > Sue, > > Thanks for the response. > > 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). > Is there a set of packages that define a server and a desktop?
If we go this route, we'd need to come up with a set of packages that we wanted for a server installation. >>> 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. > okay. >> >>> 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. > Why only for sparc? Can you login to a X86 system not a livecd > environment) while it is installing in text mode? For x86, we foresee this capability being provided via the grub menu. >>> 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. > okay. >> >>> 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. > okay. >> >>> 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. > Reproduced your response: "This was referring to setting up networking > in the microroot to use the values provided by the user (it was cryptic > because I forgot to update it prior to posting). This would need to be > done during early installation if we were doing the install from IPS, > but not necessarily important to do it otherwise." > > This is configuration changes in the environment during installation (to > setup the network). What is the relation of this setup with the > reconfiguration after installation (the original statement in 3.4.7). The post-installation configuration would be done - the question was whether it needed to be done for the microroot environment. We will clarify this in the spec. Thanks, Sundar! Sue >>> 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. > okay. >> >>> 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. > okay. >> >>> 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. > okay. > > Thanks, > Sundar >> >> Thank you for your comments, >> Sue >> >> >
