On Thu, Jul 3, 2008 at 8:26 PM, Rob <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> On Thu, Jul 3, 2008 at 4:02 PM, Rob >> so .. why drop another ISO if the process works as >> expected ? >> > > 1. it's nice to not have to install 1gb of updates on each test system we > install > 2. we install onto dell servers, which currently requires the manual install > of the mega_lsi driver... which is now included with >snv90 > 3. if a new user installs 2008.5, IPS is fairly broken- main bugs that i'm > aware of are: > * no local package cache > * does not handle repo timeouts cleanly > * installs packages that don't belong to current snv release, e.g., if i > install 2008.5, then do pkg install SUNWapache (without first installing the > new ips...) it will install SUNWapache from snv91 > > I'm sure there are some other ips bugs... but these are pretty serious deal > killers for new users
Well, gee, I think that you have some valid points there but I have not hit any of those problems myself. I am sure that there are other users out there that silently just install it and then move forwards. I am one of the noisey types. Everything is working here for me .. so I guess I'm happy and I say "don't fix there .. it works" when I am merely one little noisey data point. Perhaps efforts need to be placed on making the ISO smaller and smaller such that some sort of micro installer exists that does nothing but provide a text installer and a whack of device drivers. Thta means that the new user could download some itty bitty thing, say 100MB or so, and then install everything from that. am I thinking in the wrong direction here ? Dennis _______________________________________________ indiana-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/indiana-discuss
