Bug 153056

Summary:	Include a ftp-client in the installation system.
Product:	[openSUSE] SUSE Linux 10.1	Reporter:	Michael Gross <mgross>
Component:	Installation	Assignee:	Steffen Winterfeldt <snwint>
Status:	RESOLVED WONTFIX	QA Contact:	Klaus Kämpf <kkaempf>
Severity:	Enhancement
Priority:	P5 - None
Version:	Beta 5
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	i586
OS:	Other
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Business Priority:		Blocker:	---
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Description Michael Gross 2006-02-23 11:29:25 UTC

Users who want to rescue data from an installation system (for example to include in a bug report) will have to access an external storage device of some sort.
Modern machines have no floppy anymore and if there the system is getting formatted completely in the process it can make trouble.

As normally on networked machines there is already an internet connection (or at least LAN connection) available at the first installation stage, it would be nice to have a ftp-client inluded in the installation system to transfer the debug data from the machine to a safe place - even if it is a simple one, this should take only some few kilos here. Specially for beta testers this would make life easier.

Comment 1 Steffen Winterfeldt 2006-02-23 11:38:32 UTC

There already are scp and wget.