Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 66761
RFE: some suggestions for ksconfig
Last modified: 2008-05-01 11:38:02 EDT
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.0.0) Gecko/20020607 Description of problem: a few ideas for ksconfig Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.just run ksconfig 2. 3. Additional info: 1. there is no option to select "autostep", while there is one to select "interactive" (even though i have no clue what autostep means -- the description says that it goes to the next screen for you -- this sounds like a normal ks install.) 2. several fields allow null values in the generated ks file -- for example, the NFS server and directory. another example is selecting static IP info, which allows null fields for the rest of that screen. perhaps adding at least minimal field validation to a lot of the fields? 3. the "clearpart --drives" directive is not supported in ksconfig, but that may be beyond the scope of ksconfig.
katjz said that autostep should only be used for debugging - hence I didn't add it to ksconfig. It is like a kickstart install, but it pauses between screens to show you the values from the ks file. It is like interactive, except it clicks Next for you after a few seconds.
So, we're not going to implement #1. I just implemented #2 and it should be in 2.3.2-9 when it gets rebuilt in a few days. We have supported #3 in the partitioning screen since the first versions of ksconfig, if my memory serves me correctly. However, I have slightly changed the wording and widget layout in the most recent builds. There are radio buttons that give you the following choices: 1) Remove all existing partitions 2) Remove existing Linux partitions 3) Preserve existing partitions Resolving as Rawhide. Thanks for your report.