Fedora Firstboot Enhancements

[Luciano Miguel Ferreira Rocha]

On Sun, Nov 21, 2004 at 06:39:39PM +0100, Kyrre Ness Sjobak wrote:
> søn, 21.11.2004 kl. 01.31 skrev Luciano Miguel Ferreira Rocha:
> > On Sun, Nov 21, 2004 at 08:12:20AM +0800, joelbryan wrote:
> > > Firstboot will try to get the most information about how the user
> > > wants the system to be setup. I think enhancing Firstboot will make a
> > > lot of improvements to setting up system-wide changes affecting to all
> > > the users. Firstboot setup will make the system more easier to use,
> > > since they don't have to think about setting up the printers, the
> > > scanners, the ISP, since it's all configured and ready for use using
> > > Firstboot.
> > > 
> > > Here are the list I believe should be asked in Firstboot.
> > > 
> > > 1. Printers & Scanners
> > > 2. Network ISP's for PPPoe (DSL, Broadband)
> > > 3. Up2Date Software Updates
> > > 4. Login Preferences (Facebrowser, Network Login)
> > 5. Allow a root login on a console or xterm for when the network the
> > maching is being installed on is different than the one it will be
> > deployed to. (Or for other necessary changes for firstboot to run
> > smoothly.)
> > 
> 
> Root account is local, not ldap (etc).

Yes, but the firstboot stops the boot process. Either I kill it with
ctrl+alt+backspace or I can't change the network configuration or other
things for it to proceed smoothly (ntp, up2date).

Regards,
Luciano Rocha