Karen, Thank you for your input. I believe I have clarified those points in the paper. I have put some comments in-line.
Thank you, Andrew Gracey On Mon, Aug 9, 2010 at 1:15 PM, Karen Tung <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Andrew, > > Here are my comments and questions. > > Purpose section, last sentence, "...allow a client to install > from a server while still being able to setup each instance with unique > settings". > What does this sentence mean? What kind of unique settings can > a client setup? > The same settings that text-installer currently allows. > > Requirements section, 2nd bullet, what client side interfaces? AI client > side or the text installer interfaces? > both > > Requirements section, 3rd bullet, "a default DC manifest" for building what > type of images? > images with all the needed packages for both installers > > Requirements section, 6th bullet, do you mean for 1 single image to > be used for AI and text installer installation? > yes > > Solution, overview section. It would good to describe the overall > results you want to achieve in this project. Then, talk about what changes > are needed to create those results. > oops, now the overview is actually an overview. > > Solution, Server, paragraph 1: It is not clear to me whether you > are modifying the existing > AI manifest so that it supports both AI and text installer. Or you are > providing a brand new manifest that will create an image suitable for > both AI and network text install. What about the existing > media-based text installer image, is it going to be modified to > support network installer or will it stay the same. Please discuss > provide more detail about what happens to all the existing images. > I don't know what will happen to the existing images, that will be up to management I believe. > > Solution, Server, paragraph 2: Will the text installer be the new default > option in the grub menu? Or will it not be? Please discuss. > I removed the section because we are not going to make any changes to installadm but we are going to have the default option be the text-installer. > > Solution, client section, 3rd paragraph, the overview section says only > DC and installadm will be modified. Here, you are talking about modifying > the text installer. Which text installer part of the code are you > modifying? > We probably will not make these changes in favor of just symlinking the files to where they are expected to be. > > Solution, client section, 4th paragraph, ".... happen at the same time we > switch services." > Can you be specific about exactly which script > are you modifying to do this? > almost all of our changes on the client side are during net-fs-root since we are changing the filesystem to match the CD. > > Thanks, > > --Karen > > > > On 08/03/10 10:37, Andrew Gracey wrote: > > Hi, > > We have attached the first draft of the design document > here<http://hub.opensolaris.org/bin/view/Project+caiman/Network+Text+Installer>. > We would like feedback by August 10th. > > Thank you, > Andrew Gracey > > > _______________________________________________ > caiman-discuss mailing list > [email protected]http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/caiman-discuss > > >
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