Hi Moriah.
Thanks for your input. At the risk of being wordy, I've worked in your
suggestion along with Peter Trimble's and what I already had. It now reads:
"OpenSolaris installers should be able to install on systems which
require a device driver which is not part of the installation media. A
device driver could be missing from the installation media 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."
Thanks,
Jack
On 07/20/09 08:47, Moriah Waterland wrote:
> Jack,
>
> I have thought about the problem statement and I think that there might
> be a simpler way to describe what we are trying to accomplish with your
> project. I would probably use a problem statement close to this:
> To provide an easy way to install OpenSolaris on systems
> that require device drivers not delivered on the ISO.
>
> -M
>
> Peter Tribble wrote:
>> 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.
>>
>
>
