"??????? ??????.???.?? =?UTF-8?Q?=E0=B3=8D(Narendra_Kumar.S.S, ssnkumar at gmail.com" wrote: > > That's what we're planning to provide, the Live Media project is showing > > the early prototype work that's been done so far. Adding an installer > > to it won't be terribly difficult. > But, is Belenix different than this? >
Belenix is a different distribution. We're obviously working with Moinak and co. on the Live Media work; I'd hope we'll be able to collaborate further with them, as well as the other distributions, on common technology for installation. That's a big part of what this community is really for. > And we need to see few more installers - Mac OS, Red Hat Linux, AIX. > > > So, since you have seen the proposed new install experience you are > > obviously aware we are working on Solaris install > I know that there are plans for the new solaris install. But, I didn't > know that it has already started!! > With the few resources that aren't required for finishing the zones upgrade support, we're doing research on some of the technologies needed to implement what's called out in the strategy paper. So it's started, but it's running at a low level. > > My question to you now is, now that you have seen these different > > installers and you rate our proposed new installation experience a 5 out > > of 10, what specific recommendations do you have to improve that score, > > and why? > Two things strike to my mind when I think of "Install Screens: > 1. The first question that has to be asked is, whether the user want's > to do "Install" or "Upgrade" or "Repair". > If that is done, then we can skip all the sysid stuff in case of > "Upgrade". Yes, generally that's true. > 2. Solaris Install GUI makes use of Java. > Do we really need to use Java here? Is it not making things slow? > You need a toolkit with which to implement a GUI. For better or worse, Java represents the richest environment for doing so on Solaris, in my opinion. It isn't a significant factor in the performance of the install, though, beyond the overhead that we have in setting it up to run on the current miniroot, which is completely a result of space limitations on the first CD combined with the architecture of the current install. > And like "Windows XP", we can also have some ads which can be cycled > during installation. You're sounding like marketing ;-) Dave
