[OmniOS-discuss] extending the installer

[Dan McDonald]

This is from Michael. It got bounced for some reason, and I can't remember the de-bouncing procedure off the top of my head.  So I'm just forwarding it.

Dan

From: Michael Rasmussen <mir at miras.org>
Subject: extending the installer
Date: February 26, 2016 at 2:18:50 PM EST
To: "OmniOS-discuss" <omnios-discuss-bounces at lists.omniti.com>


Hi all,

I have thought about this for some time. I think it is silly that users
are not guided through the process of the initial setup of network and
this is also the biggest barrier for new users (IMHO). To fix this I
would suggest that the installer is extended with a GUI for doing just
this. I could be implemented in one of two ways:

1) Extend the current installer
2) Start a GUI after first boot provided that the system contains known
nics (Ethernet).

Known nics is found this way, or something similar: dladm show-phys
|grep Ethernet

I personally favor option 2 since changes in the installer requires
upstream support from Illumos while option 2 can be an Omnios thing.

What do you all think about this suggestion?

PS. I will gladly volunteer to take this task and give it to the
community as a small thank you;-)

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