Bug 144730 - change installation source / ftp or http / be more error tolerant
Summary: change installation source / ftp or http / be more error tolerant
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
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Product: SUSE LINUX 10.0
Classification: openSUSE
Component: YaST2 (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Hardware: Other Other
: P5 - None : Normal
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QA Contact: Klaus Kämpf
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Reported: 2006-01-23 08:33 UTC by Tim Fechtner
Modified: 2006-04-09 17:52 UTC (History)
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Description Tim Fechtner 2006-01-23 08:33:09 UTC 
When you add a ftp or http server as installation source, you have to fill out 2 fileds: server and folder. These fields sould be more error tolerant; actually they arn't error tolerant at all.

Make it possible to enter a server also in the form ftp://ftp.gwdg.de. Actually the leading ftp:// produces an error when connecting (something linke unable to find ftp://ftp://ftp.gwdg.de/folder/folder/folder).

Make it possible to enter the folder also in the form /pub/linux/suse/ftp.suse.com/suse/i386/10.0/SUSE-Linux10.0-GM-Extra with leading "/". Actually the leading "/" produces an error when connecting.

However it might be simplier to use only one fied for the URL of the installation folder - this is the usual way in web browsers or in konqueror, and people (at least me) find this easier.
Comment 1 Michael Gross 2006-01-23 15:45:51 UTC 
Hello Tim,

thanks for reporting this. As written in bug #137580, this has been already fixed. Just use the button `add URL' which you can find in the dialouge with the installation sources.