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Re: [Debathena] #160: Live CD needs improvement for general
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Tue Mar 17 13:50:01 2009
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Date: Tue, 17 Mar 2009 17:49:45 -0000
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#160: Live CD needs improvement for general consumption------------------------+---------------------------------------------------
Reporter: jdreed | Owner: xavid
Type: enhancement | Status: assigned
Priority: major | Resolution:
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Comment(by jdreed):
''Logins fail miserably in a lot of situations, which is why the greeter
suggests that you log in as Ubuntu to get network working.''
Except it doesn't. It says "You can login as 'ubuntu' or (if you have
internet) your Athena user". Joe Frosh thinks "Hey, I plugged in my
internet cable, I have internet.", logs in as themselves, and is sad when
it times out after like 3 minutes.
I'm not sure how automatic connectivity detection would get in people's
way? I'm merely suggesting that some init script goes and runs wget, and
then decides if it has a useful network connection or not. Based on that,
it then somehow (if possible) tells the user "Hey, you appear not to be
registered for DHCP. Logging in as your Athena username won't work until
you do that." I mean, I guess that could get annoying if you use the
LiveCD every day and aren't registered for DHCP, but I don't see that
being a big audience.
On the other hand, maybe we should just take care of this on the web page,
and have a checklist on that for using the Live CD.
-- Ticket URL: <http://debathena.mit.edu/trac/ticket/160#comment:2>Debathena <http://debathena.mit.edu/>MIT Debian-Athena Project
