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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: 2025/05/31
- 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 :
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.
