System Requirements/network access : As we discovered yesterday, this
part is just a hassle. I believe Clay mentioned a gui that made this easier.
A question more for the engineers, is there a simpler
way to accomplish this without having to look at files and services etc?
If not,
should we be creating a script/tool that makes this
easy for the user?
Regardless, I might not know what to do with these
steps. Need example command lines etc.
Using the Automated Installer: Makes it sounds like you have to edit the
manifest files. I believe you don't have to.
Example scenarios:
You mention that they need to set up a DHCP server on the install
server. How?
You need to pull an image before you run installadm
create-service. How? Where from?
The example of create-service didn't use the -n <svcname> in it.
Since the default service names are rather obtuse it would be nice
to have this example actually use that flag.
Is there any way to make things like ip_start_addr look more
"different" than the rest of the text? In our sample run it wasn't obvious
this was a variable we needed to change. Maybe even more italicized?
Creating a custom client:
The client boots. Normally? boot net? Something else?
-t imagepath : What imagepath is was not obvious to us. I think
words to the effect that it's the target dir from the create-service
would be nice.
Jean
Barbara.Lundquist at Sun.COM wrote:
> To all Auto Installers,
>
> Let's start a team discussion about what Automated Installer
> documentation we want to provide for the next (June) OpenSolaris
> release. I'll facilitate this email discussion. Please send your
> thoughts to caiman-discuss and cc docs-discuss by replying to this
> email. Let's try to finish covering our primary discussion points over
> the next two weeks.
> Barbara
>
> 2008.11 Documents
> ===============
> 1) OpenSolaris 2008.11 Automated Installer Guide (main HTML copy)
> http://dlc.sun.com/osol/docs/content/2008.11/AIinstall/
>
> For a .pdf "discussion copy", see
> http://www.opensolaris.org/os/project/indiana/files/AIinstall.pdf
>
> 2) installadm(1M) man page "discussion copy", see
>
> http://www.opensolaris.org/os/project/indiana/files/installadm.1m.txt
>
>
> Major Discussion Points for June Release
> =============================
> The following major discussion points have been made so far:
>
> 1) Restructure AI article per bugs 5772 and 5773, and per discussions
> at Eric's staff meetings last week:
>
> * Provide a very basic scenario first.
> This basic scenario will be based on some engineering AI redesigns
> planned for June release which will provide this basic scenario.
> (See revised AI design document in process.)
>
> * Separate out the troubleshooting into a later section in the article.
>
> * Separate more advanced AI scenarios into a later section in the
> article.
>
> 2) Provide separate FAQ section, either in the AI article, or
> elsewhere (on a wiki?).
>
> 3) Barbara owns the AI article and man page. Do we need additional
> owners for other new documentation, such as FAQ wiki?
>
> 4) We plan to leave the AI article in the mercurial repository as XML
> document that delivers in HTML for June release. Possibly change this
> article to wiki document after the next release.
>
>
> AI Doc Bug Fixes for Reference
> =======================
> #5772, #5523 Restructure article for basic scenario first...
> #6052, #6054, #6262 Remove internal and /tmp file references in
> article and man page
> #6053 Complete network access documentation to provide netmask
> information
> #5800, #5759 Explain how to test AI in current network environments,
> given AI network/DHCP server requirements
> #5770 Need consistent XML usage in AI/DC documentation, such as in the
> manifest examples
> #5553, #5051 Correct errors in man page (required/optional parameters,
> unclear source image)
> #5758 Explain how to delete existing AI services and environments
> #6442 Clarify create-client can accept multiple property-value pairs
>
>
>
>
>
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