Nice work, guys.
Several points from my perspective for the demo:
1. The 15G install limitation. Is it just a demo thing? Or it's
intentional? Is there any reason that Solaris is recommended on disk
more than 15G? As for some users who want to have multiple OSes on their
box, that isn't good sometimes.
2. Partition the disk. I can't find the way to configure the partition
layout such as specifying the size of the root directory("/"), home
directory("/export/home"). It seems that I can only specify the whole
Solaris partition. Did I miss something?
3. Software Package selection. Most of the install process will notify
the users to select the packages they want to install. Is that missing
from our one?
4. Is that possible to provide a way to specify where to install the
grub? This comes from the old experience of Linux installation. I
remember that users can select to install grub on MBR or the first
sector of the install partition for Linux. And it's helpful for some
mutiboot users in my opinion.
As a whole, it's quite simple and easy for the users to have a install.
Looks really great :-)
Thanks,
-Alfred
Sarah Jelinek wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> For those who might be interested to see how the Dwarf GUI is
> progressing, we have created a binary package (X86) which is a snapshot
> of the latest development code.
>
> Package can be downloaded from here:
>
> http://opensolaris.org/os/project/caiman/files/SUNWgui-install.pkg
>
> To install and run:
>
> $> pkgadd -d SUNWgui-install.pkg
>
> $> install-lan
>
> install-lan is the initial pre-install screen and will take care of
> chain loading the keyboard-layout program and finally the actual install
> program itself (gui-install). gui-install hides until it receives
> SIGUSR1, which the keyboard-layout program sends it.
>
>
> Now for the usual disclaimers?
>
> * This demo does not do an install or upgrade. It is simply a GUI
> demo to show the new look and feel for the Caiman GUI's.
>
> * This is code under very heavy development. There is lots of stuff
> that doesn't work yet or hasn't been implemented. If you think you see a
> bug(and you will), chances are we are aware of it :-) . This is
> pre-pre-pre Alpha.
>
> * Comments/suggestions/ideas are welcome. These should be sent to
> caiman-discuss at opensolaris.org.
>
> We will also update the available demo apps on the Dwarf Caiman demo
> page as regularly as possible:
>
> http://opensolaris.org/os/project/caiman/Dwarf/Dwarf_Demo/
>
> Happy demo'ing!
>
> thanks,
> Dwarf Caiman team
