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[Casey Harkins <charkins AT upl.cs.wisc.edu>]

A quick fix would be to take network configuration out of the installer
and notify the user to configure it when they boot. I threw together a
basic network configuration tool a while back. If anyone from the cauldron
team would like to take a look, it should be available from:

http://www.upl.cs.wisc.edu/~charkins/netconf.bz2

Take a look at the "Testing Tips" comment at the top for testing it
without mucking with your real network settings. This tool could be
installed with net-tools and the installer could notify the user to run
'netconf' to configure networking.

-casey




On Sat, 14 Jun 2003, Laurent Wandrebeck wrote:

> howdy !
> i've worked a bit on this bug. i must tell there is a bad news:
> net-tools have evolved since 0.5.1, and devices are not configured
> the same way anymore, that implies the method used to configure
> network devices doesn't work anymore too :(
> for a 1st look at it, we'll have dig quite deeply into it.
> So, that will take time. If anyone from cauldron team would like
> to help, you're welcome. problem is localised in
> /usr/sbin/sgl.install, function networking().
>
> That leads me to the task dispatching for cauldron team members:
>
> belxjander proposed himself to work on a multi-platform installer.
> we'd like to add hardware detection (something light, that doesn't
> need us to add things on the iso - ie pure C, forget python, perl
> is ok as it is already included - btw, could someone check if it
> is _really_ needed ? if not, forget perl, we'll rip it out. )
>
> i must shorten this mail as it's time to sleep.
> about tasks split, i'd like cauldron members to change the subject
> of this mail.
> about network config bug, follow this thread. i'd especially like
> to hear from the ones who hacks net-tools (erics, sandalle, rycee,
> others ?) in order to get informations about the way it works so
> that we can modify installer more easily.
>
> Comments, ideas are welcome.
> See ya,
> low
> PS: i'm off until sunday at best, monday at worst.
> PS2: it's great to work w/ you all, keep up the good work !
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