=Comment: #0================================================= Emily J. Ratliff <ratliff.com> - 1. Feature Overview: Feature Id: [201676] a. Name of Feature: Improve checking mechanisms and workflow of Linux on System z Anaconda install process b. Feature Description There should be better syntactic and also (if possible) semantic checking of user input. On syntactically or semantically wrong answers, the user should have the possibility to correct entries immediately. After having specified all necessary parameters, anaconda should present an overview of all user input and give the user the choice to correct single user-chosen entries without starting all over again. If anaconda is unable to configure vital devices, the user should be presented meaningful error messages. The corresponding architecture specific installation documentation should be updated accordingly. RHEL 6.0 request: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=462975 2. Feature Details: Sponsor: zSeries Architectures: s390x Arch Specificity: Both Affects Installer: Yes Delivery Mechanism: Backport Category: Installation Request Type: Installer - Enhancement from Distributor d. Upstream Acceptance: No Code Required Sponsor Priority 1 f. Severity: High IBM Confidential: no Code Contribution: no g. Component Version Target: n/a 3. Business Case These changes will improve the installation experience for customers by making the installation workflow more usable and efficient, which will result in an improvement of the customer satisfaction. 4. Primary contact at Red Hat: John Jarvis jjarvis 5. Primary contacts at Partner: Project Management Contact: Hans-Georg Markgraf, mgrf.com, Boeblingen 49-7031-16-3978 Technical contact(s): Gonzalo Muelas Serrano, gmuelas.com IBM Manager: Thomas Schwarz, t.schwarz.com
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Created attachment 329139 [details] extended initial installation dialog for RHEL on System z
Created attachment 334940 [details] extended initial installation dialog for RHEL on System z ------- Comment (attachment) From hans.ibm.com 2009-03-12 10:42 EDT------- "Updated patches as discussed in RHEL 5.4 Installer eSDT to reflect correct handling/user interaction of MAC address with Layer2 devices and text for CTC for migration purposes, which remains deprecated".
(In reply to comment #3) > Created an attachment (id=334940) [details] > extended initial installation dialog for RHEL on System z BTW, this is also fixes the part in linuxrc.s390 of RH bug 465174 - Incorrect DNS format on s390 causes traceback. Additionally, this also includes support for syntax checking of IPv6 DNS addresses (using comma as separator instead of colon, of course).
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 475350 ***