On 3/30/06, Stephen Potter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Is there any reason for sendmail to be running during an install? Wouldn't a > better fix be to turn off sendmail? > > The dtterm -C issues needs fixed as well, of course, but there's really two > problems here.
I was thinking that the first reboot really requires very very few services at all. For example, telnet, ftp, finger and such do not need to be running when we reboot from the first CDROM. Also, as an idea, what if the machine in question had a large amount of RAM ? Let us suppose that the machine had 4GB or more. This is most likely the case in the Sparc world these days. I can not imagine a reason to have a UltraSparc system ( workstation or server ) with less than 4GB of RAM. So then, my idea is, simply read the CDROMs one after another into a RAM disk and then perform the installation in one shot. Yes, this would be a real overhaul of the install process. But lets face it .. people whine continually about the Solaris install process being clumsey, slow, and just "no fun". So then ... could we keep the majority of the existing install process while pointing its source to neither CDROM nor NFS but rather RAM disk? We could even read in the CDROMs with readcd ( from Jörg Schilling ) into ISO images and then use lofiadm to mount them. I know this seems like a long winded diatribe ( monologue actually ) on an idea but I just feel that _something_ new needs to be looked at. Dennis
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