[email protected] wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 12:57:07PM -0500, Shawn Walker wrote:
>> Configuration options like this belong in the firstboot configuration
>> setup, or in visual panels where they don't add to the complexity of the
>> installer.
>
> But one of the (hidden ?) goals of OpenSolaris is to attract linux users.
> So one additional screen during installation which asks about your habits
> (PATH, etc.)
> shoudn't make it really more complicated.
Another one is to produce an OS that can be preinstalled on computers
shipped by companies like Sun, Toshiba, Fujitsu, etc. Putting it in
a first-boot dialog instead of an install dialog allows that to work
and give hardware purchasers the same option as those who install the
OS themselves.
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-Alan Coopersmith- [email protected]
Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering
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