[OmniOS-discuss] Extending the installer

[Davide Poletto]

Hello! I add my (2 cents) thoughts.

What's about enhancing/extending OmniOS's installer (Caiman, right?) also
by exposing rpool's basic customization at creation time?

>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.

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 this
<https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/solaris/OmniOSDiskSizing>) at
installation time; to circumvent this behaviour/feature at install time
user is required to follow this
<http://omnios.omniti.com/wiki.php/ISOrpoolCustomize> particular documented
OmniOS's procedure manually.

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.

Kind regards, Davide.

On Fri, Feb 26, 2016 at 8:40 PM, Michael Rasmussen <mir at miras.org> wrote:

> 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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