On 04/28/10 07:30 PM, [email protected] wrote:
Hi Ethan and Dave,
Introduction - It's probably tangential to this work, but it may be worth
considering whether the criteria mechanism should be made usable on the
bootable AI media, to assist with self-contained turnkey media installation
solutions. Architecturally is there a reason why it shouldn't be usable?
Our criteria mechanism lives in an install service, and the
interface to the selection mechanism is through a webserver,
so that's a little bit limiting for us to be able to do this.
It would be useful for non wanboot-able SPARC or for one to use an install
server when the local subnet isn't properly configured (i.e. dns-sd isn't
providing the aiwebserver tag for the desired service).
Interesting (though, as I noted in your newly-filed bug, I think
selection from discovered instances as I note in bug 13422 would be more
useful), but the case I'm pushing here is for entirely self-contained
media that would have a set of manifests and associated criteria
included on it. That potentially provides a mechanism for turnkey
installation by relatively untrained technicians, a scenario not
uncommon for our OEM customers.
Dave
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