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Bug 475346

Summary: [LTC 5.4 FEAT] Improve checking mechanisms and workflow of Linux on System z Anaconda install process [201676]
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 Reporter: IBM Bug Proxy <bugproxy>
Component: anacondaAssignee: Dave Cantrell <dcantrell>
Status: CLOSED DUPLICATE QA Contact: Release Test Team <release-test-team-automation>
Severity: high Docs Contact:
Priority: high    
Version: 5.4CC: bhinson, borgan, hpicht, jjarvis, maier
Target Milestone: alphaKeywords: FutureFeature, OtherQA
Target Release: 5.4   
Hardware: s390x   
OS: All   
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Fixed In Version: Doc Type: Enhancement
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Last Closed: 2009-04-17 00:11:43 UTC Type: ---
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oVirt Team: --- RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host:
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Bug Blocks: 445204, 472936, 483784    
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Description Flags
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Description IBM Bug Proxy 2008-12-08 22:21:21 UTC 
=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
Comment 1 John Jarvis 2008-12-22 16:52:33 UTC 
IBM is signed up to test and provide feedback.
Comment 2 IBM Bug Proxy 2009-01-15 20:44:02 UTC 
Created attachment 329139 [details]
 extended initial installation dialog for RHEL on System z
Comment 3 IBM Bug Proxy 2009-03-12 14:54:52 UTC 
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".
Comment 4 Steffen Maier 2009-04-02 17:20:06 UTC 
(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).
Comment 5 Dave Cantrell 2009-04-17 00:11:43 UTC 

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 475350 ***