Bug 78528
| Summary: | RFE: Be able to extract networking info from existing OS | ||
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| Product: | [Retired] Red Hat Linux | Reporter: | Need Real Name <sahai> |
| Component: | distribution | Assignee: | Bill Nottingham <notting> |
| Status: | CLOSED DEFERRED | QA Contact: | Brock Organ <borgan> |
| Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | medium | ||
| Version: | 8.0 | CC: | rvokal |
| Target Milestone: | --- | Keywords: | FutureFeature |
| Target Release: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | All | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Enhancement | |
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| Last Closed: | 2002-11-26 21:09:22 UTC | Type: | --- |
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
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| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
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This is not something we are going to address in the installer. Perhaps the distribution team may want to investigate having the configuration tools have the ability to import information. I don't see this happening any time soon. |
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.2b) Gecko/20021016 Description of problem: The current install works quite well for a lot of setups where the networking is basically just using DHCP. However, in a fraction of the cases, the users are sitting on a configuration that requires a static IP address, or a dialup configuration that involves a particular access number, etc. Such users (and I am thinking of Desktop users here mostly) often have another OS installation already working as far as networking goes. In such cases, it would be incredibly nice (and quite impressive) if the installation program would be smart enough to parse the existing settings and present them as the defaults for the new installation. Realistically speaking, this probably involves writing some scripts that use a Win9x/NT/XP registry parser to recognize certain very common configurations and to pull the relevant information out. Of course, it would be great if it could extract such info from other *nix installations (especially any past redhat installs) as well. This would also go a long way for corporate users (or more likely, a department or subgroup) that might want to switch their desktop users to GNU/Linux. From what I have seen, asking lay users to enter in IP addresses or dialup numbers by hand is quite off-putting and even scary for them. This is of course, just the first and most obvious idea for what is a larger program: make it easier for users to migrate. Other potential steps: bookmark importation from IE, email-access information from Outlook/Outlook-Express/Eudora, automatically finding and copying over directory trees containing documents ("My Documents", etc.), as well as more sophisticated aspects of networking like standards-based VPNs (bring over the IPSEC keys), etc.... Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): I selected anaconda, but maybe this is also a concern for kudzu. How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: Do an install on a machine that already has a working windows install Additional info: