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Summary

Allow users to set up their computer's name during installation and to modify it later using MCC.

Owner

  • Name: filorin
  • IRC: filorin on #mageia, #mageia-fr
  • Mail :

Resources

  • Installer to be modified (Drakx and drak-live-install)
  • QA for tests
  • Update documentation and translations for this new feature
  • Packagers who maintain Drakx and drak-live-install

Current status

  • Targeted release: Mageia 5
  • Last updated: 2025/05/09
  • Percentage of completion: <0>%

Detailed Description

  • It should be good to add a step during installation in order to let users choose how they want to name their computer. It would also be fine for a server setup. This step will allow people to customize further their setup during installation. It's already possible to change hostname using MCC but the technique is a little bit complicated (and hard to explain). It should also mean that we can had something in the MCC to easily rename the computer.
  • This feature does already exist in most of distros like Debian, Fedora, OpenSuse etc.


Here's my example :


Hostnameproposalmga5.png

Why it would be good for Mageia to include it

Accessibility for end-users will be easier. They will be able to define their computer's name without doing any manipulation with a text editor or with command line

Test case

Software / Packages Dependencies

  • drakx
  • drak-live-installer

/etc/hostname and /etc/machine-info (the latter sets the pretty name and the former is a sanitised version of that e.g. "Joe's Computer" for PRETTY_HOSTNAME in machine-info becomes "joescomputer" in hostname). We also currently need to set the hostname in /etc/sysconfig/network for now.

What could disrupt development of this new feature

  • Nobody to work on it because QA tests are very simple

Planning

  • If accepted, this simple feature should be added in drakx as soon as possible (Alpha 2 for instance : 2014/07/08)

Contingency

Release Notes

Documentation

  • Documentation should be updated with a new paragraph concerning the new feature.