On Fri, Aug 14, 2009 at 6:26 PM, Glenn Lagasse<[email protected]> wrote: > * [email protected] ([email protected]) wrote: >> > >> "Visual panels" do not work when you need to install 100s of systems. > > No, but a package which once installed as part of the automated > installer that creates an smf service and method to do post-install > customization would work.
So AI is going to provide this package as a standard feature, right? Expecting everyone to independently implement this feature seems wasteful. >> 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. > > That's your opinion of course, I and others pretty strongly disagree. > There are things that should absolutely be asked at install time. > However, install time is not the proper place to ask every possible > question someone might want to configure. There's a balance to be > struck. And the pendulum has swung way too far. The current Solaris installer isn't too far off. What is needs is a clean user-friendly interface, not removing completely. > Of course there are differences between an interactive install > and a 'hands-off' install. I think I've provided an answer for how to > configure 'anything' post-install during an automated installation. To configure 'anything' requires essentially arbitrary scripting. First you tell us that arbitrary scripting will never be allowed, then you tell us that it's necessary, but we all have to implement our own mechanisms to get it. -- -Peter Tribble http://www.petertribble.co.uk/ - http://ptribble.blogspot.com/ _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list [email protected]
