[install-discuss] customize disk layout within installation process b87

[Dave Miner]

Sarah Jelinek wrote:
> ...Also, Frank L noted that the current Indiana
> image doesn't include the zfs gui. While we can do all of this via the 
> zfs cli, perhaps we should consider including the zfs gui in the 
> distribution for ease of use. It is a very good gui. However, it may 
> require more dependent software than we want to consider.
> 

Without taking a position on this particular user interface being 
included on an image...

If it's in the repository, it's "in" the Indiana distribution.  We need 
to *not* be somehow thinking of things that happen to be on a particular 
CD or USB image as being "preferred".  The goal of any particular image 
we create is not to make every possible user happy, but to meet a 
particular set of requirements for a particular set of users.

Just think of software as either being already there, or only a click or 
two away.  I don't think that is too much of an obstacle to users who 
may want such functionality.

Dave



> I agree in general that the installer should do what the installer needs 
> to do. All sysadmin type things that are not required for install should 
> be deferred. One of the major issues we had in the old installer was 
> feature creep. It was too complex.
> 
> We do need to ensure we have the appropriate tools installed or 
> available for installation so the user can customize as they wish.
> 
> sarah
> ****
>> If there are other changes that truely eliminate these, then it might 
>> not  be needed, but I must have missed something then. :)
>>
>>    -Kyle
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