Peter Tribble wrote: > On Wed, 2006-06-28 at 22:50, Sarah Jelinek wrote: ... >>> - KVM configuration >>> >> This is currently part of the sysid stuff in current Solaris install. >> This was kdmconfig. Not sure this is needed any more for x86 with the >> new Xorg server. Never needed this for sparc(as far as I know). > > Depends. My experience is that this is erratic. I have a sparc and > x86 system that generate a working X server configuration, but both > make suboptimal resolution choices. And I'm seeing keyboard > misidentification reasonably often too. >
I hope you're filing bugs! When you get sub-optimal resolution, does the Gnome screen resolution preferences setting help to get it right? Just like to understand how deep the problem is here... Apparently keyboard identification is somewhat spotty due to manufacturers cutting corners, so that's one thing you definitely will be given a choice to configure. ... > I don't see the installer as just for installation, either. Certain > parts of it you're unlikely to run later (target selection), but > I would expect further software and configuration management to use > the installation engine. > This is most likely true. ... > Install profile, like jumpstart. Certainly the way I think > about it is that the interactive prompts up to this point > generate what is essentially a jumpstart profile and sysidcfg > file, and then the instllation runs from those. Even better > if it saves them somewhere so that you can simply use them > for jumpstart later. (Or even the ability to generate a > valid sysidcfg file and jumpstart porofile from an installed > system.) > To some extent, this is how it already works - the current GUI generates a profile internally for pfinstall to use, though the character-mode installer doesn't. We unfortunately don't save that profile off for re-use. But we agree strongly that all of the above is desirable, as well as with the two points below: > Actually, there's another possibility, which is to run the installer > interactively without doing an installation and generate the profile > from that. You could play around with this quite a lot to get just > the system you want. > > (You could even go from this to generating a custom CD image that > could be used to install such a system.) > Dave
