> Dennis Clarke wrote: >> http://www.blastwave.org/dclarke/GNOME/snv_46_installer_SendMail_burp.png >> >> Is there a bug filed against this somewhere ? >> >> Its annoying as all hell to have to move my mouse around to try to find >> the >> real window and then continue the install. > > I can't find it now, but I thought there was one on the console output not > being captured during the install. The bigger bug I see there though is > why is sendmail running during the install at all?
Thats an entirely different question. Let's look at that. As I see it I install via the CDROM 1 of 6 with the usual boot from the ok prompt and after a long long while ( this is an Ultra 2 ) I get X up and then a dialog box that begins the standard process. What locale and language seems to be a great place to start. After that we get the dialog that asks the most essential configuration questions. Hostname and ip address and such. Eventually we get to the questions about disks to install onto. I am sorry if I am being verbose and boring here but sometimes it helps to go over the mundane and trivial steps in a process. The machine ignores, or rather is unable to comprehend what to do with six of my SCSI disks because they were all in a ZFS pool and thus have EFI labels on them. No problem. This is the installer after all. Then after I get to the end of CDROM 1 of 6 I can sit back, sip coffee and watch this machine reboot all on its own. That is exactly what I did at about 3AM today. What a boring existence. Well, X-files were on and I put together the first ever OpenSolaris Top 10 list while chatting with the Aussie crowd ( http://www.blastwave.org/top10/index.html ) and after a long while the machine reboots and starts a pile of daemons via the SMF manifest I assume. This is the issue I think. Why start all those things at this point? Perhaps we need some sort of signature file on the root filesystem that tells the boot process "hey, we are still installing" and it can be every bit as obvious as /reconfigure or what ever. The machine eventually gets around to asking me where CDROM 2 is and I try to type that info into the dialog box when SendMail messes up my screen. I mouse around and find the actual window and then move it or I mouse over the buttons to find them. In any case the "refresh" option via the background dialog did nothing for me. I mean that I put the mouse onto the silly looking vertical swirls and clicked the rightmost button. That gives me a dialog box with "refresh" in it somewhere. Nope. Nothing. Anyways .. I muddled along and when I got to CDROM 6 I managed to get the /usr/dt/bin/sdtimage running and that explains the image. Dennis _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list [email protected]
