Pradhap Devarajan wrote On 07/15/06 23:02,:
>Michelle, > Couple of things which I had noted down > >* In the prequsite list it would good be, if we explicitly mention that >Solaris requires a primary partition for installation. Because people try to >install Solaris on multiboot machine half-way through they recognize that >Solaris requires a primary partition so they have to start all over again >which is bad. > >* In the re-partition section > > http://www.opensolaris.org/os/community/documentation/reviews/chapter1/ch01s03.html > > - I d'nt see why we need the steps 1-5. Is it just to know the current > parition layout ?? > > Pradhap is correct. When Dave and I put together the presentation for the user group, we wanted to show them how the disk was partitioned before we started the procedure, so we showed them what the Windows view of the disk was first. Those steps have no bearing on actually partitioning the drive. You could start with step 6, then step 1 and proceed with step 7, etc.... (renumbering them, of course). ginnie > - In the step 6, It would be better if we mention that burn the > system-rescuecd iso image and reboot the system. Ask user to make sure that > (CD/DVD)rom is first boot device so that it boots up with system-rescudecd. > > - Also we need to emphasize the repartition section aim is to create a free > Primary partition. > > - The link "Home" in end of the page is broken points to wrong location. And > the next link is blank it would good if it points to "Installing the > OpenSolaris Software " > >* In the Installing the OpenSolaris Software section > http://www.opensolaris.org/os/community/documentation/reviews/chapter2/ > - There are lots of typo "i install" this section need to replace those > - Link "Home" at the bottom of the page is pointing to a wrong location > - It would be better to have "Next" link > >* In "Configuring Xorg for nVidia for Solaris" section > http://www.opensolaris.org/os/community/documentation/reviews/chapter3/ > > - It says "configuring wireless networking" which is not related to this > section. > > - It would be better to add a trouble shooting tip:- > Sometime after the installation of Solaris at first boot, if > Xorg/Xsun not configured properly dtlogin goes for a toss so user need to > reboot the machine with "-s" option from grub to land into "Single user" > mode and then start installation. > >* In "Configuring Networking" section > > http://www.opensolaris.org/os/community/documentation/reviews/chapter3/ch01s03.html > > - It would be good to add links for Ginetmenu and Netprof for wireless. > - For ethernet card if user need to change the IP address/Hostname he has no > clue where to start. So it would be better to add "sys-unconfig" command so > that users need to runs and reboot the machine for setting it up. > >regards, >Pradhap.D > >-- >Sun Microsystems (I) Pvt Ltd >http://blogs.sun.com/pradhap > > >This message posted from opensolaris.org >_______________________________________________ >docs-discuss mailing list >docs-discuss at opensolaris.org > > -- Ginnie
