Bug 153056 - Include a ftp-client in the installation system.
Summary: Include a ftp-client in the installation system.
Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: SUSE Linux 10.1
Classification: openSUSE
Component: Installation (show other bugs)
Version: Beta 5
Hardware: i586 Other
: P5 - None : Enhancement (vote)
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Assignee: Steffen Winterfeldt
QA Contact: Klaus Kämpf
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Reported: 2006-02-23 11:29 UTC by Michael Gross
Modified: 2006-02-23 11:38 UTC (History)
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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.