On Jun 17, 2009, at 5:50 PM, Danek Duvall wrote:
On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 02:05:28PM -0500, Shawn Walker wrote:
I didn't provide explicit instructions for the DVD case because I
felt that
was a pretty common operation, while dumping an ISO image to a
flash device
is decidedly not.
Okay. I guess folks using nautilus or something aren't likely to
have much
trouble with it at all, short of perhaps not being able to fit the
single
image on a single disk.
You can fit the image on a single disc with the appropriate media or
hardware, but you are correct that most individuals likely don't have
dual-layer DVD-RW drives in their servers or desktops that are using
this ;)
My laptop does though...
Actually, the mount -F hsfs iso only works after a certain build,
so it
would depend on which version of Solaris 10 they're using, etc. On
certain
versions, you'd have to use lofiadm and then mount it. But I
wanted to use
the easier route because I wanted to assume they were using
OpenSolaris
2009.x.
Okay. In which case you'll want to state clearly that these
instructions
only apply to OpenSolaris.
I can provide the lofiadm route if you think that there will be enough
Solaris 10 users that need it since that will still work on
OpenSolaris 2009.x.
mirror here is referring to the usage of the depot server they are
setting
up based on client configuration, not pkg.opensolaris.org/dev.
So, why would I drop mirror?
Because your first suggestion is that they set up their clients to
point
to their depot as an origin, in which case it's not being used as a
mirror.
If you have the word "mirror" in the description merely because it
*can* be
used as a mirror, then I would argue that the same applies to the /dev
repo, and that seems silly to me.
If they have a private network, then it makes senseto have one single
server be the "origin" for the opensolaris.org publisher, but set this
repository up on multiple other systems and add them as mirrors to the
client to increase aggregate resources, right?
Or is the issue that we document both usage cases without clearly
explaining why?
Would it be sufficient to reword the mirror paragraph to explicitly
denote the aggregate usage case?
--
Shawn Walker
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