Re: GSoC: Sysinst enhancements proposal

[Martin Husemann <martin%duskware.de@localhost>]

On Sat, Mar 31, 2012 at 08:18:05PM +0200, Julian Fagir wrote:
> >   * Creating DVD and USB flash live/install combined images;
> I'm really curious about that and it would be great! We had a small discussion
> in #netbsd (Freenode) about that topic and wondered what actually makes
> systems boot from isos on flash drives. sysiso is the way to go, somebody
> said.

I have no idea what "sysiso" is, but we already have "build.sh live-image"
and "build.sh install-image", and extending the live images to include
an option to run the installer is pretty much straight forward.

For the rest, it seems to me we should clearly separate "reimplement sysinst
with a different architecture" projects from "enhance exisiting sysinst"
projects. The original project proposal, and the student proposal as I read
it, are in the latter category. Your question more aim at the former type
of project.

Both types of project proposals are fine, but we should be clear about
which one we are talking here. Anything that involves re-architecting
sysinst and promissing a result feature-equivalent to the current
sysinst will be hard to do within GSoC timeframe.

Martin