Frank Middleton wrote:
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.
A directly bootable AI image that can install without a boot server of
any sort is almost ready to integrate.
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?
Yes, but the text UI, which will be available in both x86 and SPARC in
coming months, will perhaps dampen the demand yet further for a GUI
installer for SPARC.
Dave
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