[OmniOS-discuss] Requesting System Maintenance Mode at Installation

[Dan McDonald]

> On Apr 26, 2017, at 10:31 AM, Özkan Göksu <ozkan.goksu at usishi.com> wrote:
> 
> I installed omnios-r151020-4151d05.
> 
> I think you should add next release PKGIN, diskinfo, and maybe more disk utility. 

diskinfo is baked-in to illumos now, and subsequently will be in r151022. The disk-selection of the new installer takes diskinfo(1M) output as its data, e.g.

> I'm tired every release installing these software besides almost everybody needs...

This falls back to the original OmniOS KYSTY philosophy, which I still agree with, though I understand very much your concern & frustration.  After 022, I was hoping to address clearly the problem by proposing a LARGE secondary publisher that would provide the sort of extras you seek. There were questions about its construction and maintenance of course.  024 was going to have an 022-like super-sized 9-ish-month cycle (to get us back on the spring/fall 6-month cadence), which would've been partially used to solve such problems.

> I'm very sad about ending.

Me too, but that train has left the station (at least w.r.t. OmniTI).  It's on the community now.

> Thank you for your all effort.

It was my pleasure.

Dan