On Wed, Jul 15, 2009 at 7:08 PM, Jack Schwartz<Jack.A.Schwartz at sun.com> wrote: > > Here's how the problem statement now stands: > > "All OpenSolaris installers must be able to install on any system. ?Yet > there could be a device driver which is not part of the installation media, > which is needed to operate a system device. ?This could occur for various > reasons: ?the driver could be closed or third party, or could be support for > a new device which was added after the media was published. ?To enable > support for these cases, the ability to deliver ?drivers from locations > other than the installation media for install is critical. ?OpenSolaris > installers should make it as easy as possible to locate and install drivers > for all devices, including drivers which do not exist on the installation > media."
The first sentence doesn't seem right. I can imagine having different installers for different needs. I can also imagine systems for which no possible installer will succeed. All - must - any seems unattainable. There are also cases when the installer itself can do nothing - for example, missing network drivers. It's stuck, so you need to extend the problem statement to include finding and downloading necessary drivers completely outside the installer, in such a way that the installer can pick them up when it does run. -- -Peter Tribble http://www.petertribble.co.uk/ - http://ptribble.blogspot.com/
