Bug 72937 – ability for anaconda to connect via ppp* and make a full network installation

Bug 72937 - ability for anaconda to connect via ppp* and make a full network installation

Summary:	ability for anaconda to connect via ppp* and make a full network installation

Status:	CLOSED WONTFIX

Aliases:	None

Product:	Red Hat Public Beta
Classification:	Retired
Component:	anaconda (Show other bugs)
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Version:	null
Hardware:	i386 Linux

Priority	medium Severity medium
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Assigned To:	Michael Fulbright
QA Contact:	Brock Organ
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Keywords:	FutureFeature

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Reported:	2002-08-29 04:48 EDT by Dams
Modified:	2007-04-18 12:46 EDT (History)
CC List:	1 user (show)

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Last Closed:	2002-08-29 04:48:55 EDT
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Description Dams 2002-08-29 04:48:48 EDT

From Bugzilla Helper:
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 Galeon/1.2.5 (X11; Linux i686; U;) Gecko/20020809

Description of problem:
Anaconda should have the ability to ask a username and a password to do
pppoe/pppoa/isdn/etc.. connection for adsl/cable/etc.. to make an installation
via internet.
This would be lighter to do this than to download all iso....

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):


How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. boot on a floppy
2. ask for ISP username & password.
3. connect through pppoe/pppoa/isdn (rtc??;)
4. download anaconda images, do the installation downloading the packages

Additional info:

anaconda could begin the download of Very-Important-Packages (like glibc and
kernel) while the user is answering the traditionnal questions (partitions,
bootloader, x configuration...)

Comment 1 Michael Fulbright 2002-08-29 12:01:49 EDT

I would recommend you download the ISO images with an existing network
connection and install from hard drive.  We have no plans to configure anything
beyond a simple ethernet connection.

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