Re: RFC: GUI tools for common Debian admin tasks
On Wed, Sep 06, 2000 at 06:59:57PM +0200, Frederic Peters wrote:
>
> Ricardo Javier Cardenes Medina wrote :
> > We can fill automagically some of these values. If a user types in
> > "192.168.1.15" as IP, and the interface is eth*, we can figure out that
> > the gateway will be 192.168.1.1, and class C (255.255.255.0).
> >
> > The user will be able to modify those values as he/she is going through
> > the options, if they are wrong.
> Actually the boot floppies already does that nicely.
> (and yes, it is nice)
Yes, I know this :) But we have to provide some way to the user to
re-configure it without having to type:
dpkg-reconfigure netbase
Why? Well... Maybe some users are "blind", or simply they have not
experience enough with Debian to know that this is one (of multiple)
way... O:)
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