Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 13332
RFE: text & gui options differ for nameserve
Last modified: 2008-05-01 11:37:56 EDT
The options for text versus gui install offer different options for specifying nameservers. The text option only offers specifying the primary nameserver. The gui option allows specifying the primary as well as two additional nameservers. Pick one, be consistent.
Screens are current frozen so we cannot change now - will put this on the feature request list for the next release.
There are additional issues related to this. I think that the labels need to be consistent as well. Why does the text mode say 'nameserver' when GUI mode says 'DNS'? Also, the GUI mode lets you set addresses for the Broadcast and Network settings, but the text mode does not. Also, GUI mode lets you decide if you want the network to start on boot-up with the 'Activate on boot' checkbox, which the text mode lacks. Dr. Mike, do you have any opinions about which mode should be changed? Brent
I've changed the python module in the text mode installer to ask for secondary and ternary nameservers. I haven't changed the one in the loader because that one is written in C and would require much more work to fix. Brock, please verify that the python version works now. I've tested it myself with positive results.
this is not consistent across all cases ... for example, using bootnet.img for a text mode install does not ask for secondary or ternary nameserver (either in stage one or stage two) ...
verified fix using qa1213.0 test tree ...