Shawn Walker wrote:
[email protected] wrote:
The point is that they don't *need* or have to be in the installer.
They're just as beneficial and useful at firstboot, in a Visual
Panel, or somewhere else. There is no overwhelmingly great reason to
force them to be part of the install process. Installation should be
about installation and the minimum amount of configuration to get the
system going. Anything beyond that is a pollution of the process IMO.
Our customers want an "hands-off" install; an install which can be
customized to a point where the system reboots and nothing needs to
be done.
"Visual panels" do not work when you need to install 100s of systems.
The fact that you are required to configure a system after it is
installed is a bug. Any system which requires post-install
configuration is broken to a point that is not usable.
Customers want hands-off installs should use Automated Installer; we're
talking about the LiveCD installer AFAIk.
Before I forget, even if someone *was* talking about the automated case,
configuration beyond the very minimum still doesn't belong in the
installer itself. And from what I understand, SMF is going to be used
for configuration for AI.
The same philosophy is followed in pkg(5) for good reasons ...
Cheers,
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Shawn Walker
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