On 10/13/09 17:02, Dan Mick wrote:
No reason to wonder; it's been explained. Being unhappy about the situation, I can understand. But is it an insurmountable limitation for an enterprise to have one x86 box to put the install image onto?
As previously noted, you don't even need that (do something like compile pkg from scratch and then pkg install -R entire) . So IMO the lack of a rescue CD is much more serious. IIRC, doesn't the AI installer require that the x86 become a DHCP server? Not so easy if DHCP is provided by some distant router under the control of a different department. Then you have to set up a completely private network. The Fedora network installer is equally awkward (its architecture seems rather similar) but at least you can boot Anaconda from a CD or a local disk. Martin Bochnig said he was hoping to get legacy fb support done in time for 10.02. Not that I really care about gui installers, but out of curiosity, if he could do it in time, would that make a gui installer (understanding there is probably little demand for one on SPARC) technically possible as an option at some point thereafter? Cheers -- Frank _______________________________________________ indiana-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/indiana-discuss
