<div dir="ltr"><div><div>Hello! I add my (2 cents) thoughts.<br><br></div>What's about enhancing/extending OmniOS's installer (Caiman, right?) also by exposing rpool's basic customization at creation time?<br><br>From my point of view that's quite different from worrying about to configure networks/services *after* OmniOS is *yet* installed by pretending to include these sort of system configurations into/during the install phase...I mean rpool's basic customization is something - maybe I'm wrong here - "primordial" in the concept of an illumos based OS installation.<br><br>Parameters I'm referring to are rpool's size, options (like compression), swap and dump sizes: those are basically hidden (for the sake of simplicity I think) to user during the install phase and Caiman configures those rpool parameters quite automatically (read <a href="https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/solaris/OmniOSDiskSizing">this</a>) at installation time; to circumvent this behaviour/feature at install time user is required to follow <a href="http://omnios.omniti.com/wiki.php/ISOrpoolCustomize">this</a> particular documented OmniOS's procedure manually.<br><br></div><div>Well, nothing that can't be changed/adapted after OmniOS is installed (rpool's size apart?)...but IMHO would be interesting to let users to configure those parameters at install time.<br></div><div><br></div><div>Kind regards, Davide. <br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Feb 26, 2016 at 8:40 PM, Michael Rasmussen <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:mir@miras.org" target="_blank">mir@miras.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Hi all,<br>
<br>
I have thought about this for some time. I think it is silly that users<br>
are not guided through the process of the initial setup of network and<br>
this is also the biggest barrier for new users (IMHO). To fix this I<br>
would suggest that the installer is extended with a GUI for doing just<br>
this. I could be implemented in one of two ways:<br>
<br>
1) Extend the current installer<br>
2) Start a GUI after first boot provided that the system contains known<br>
nics (Ethernet).<br>
<br>
Known nics is found this way, or something similar: dladm show-phys<br>
|grep Ethernet<br>
<br>
I personally favor option 2 since changes in the installer requires<br>
upstream support from Illumos while option 2 can be an Omnios thing.<br>
<br>
What do you all think about this suggestion?<br>
<br>
PS. I will gladly volunteer to take this task and give it to the<br>
community as a small thank you;-)<br>
<br>
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