On Feb 4, 2008 9:02 PM, Travis Willard wrote:

On Feb 4, 2008 9:35 PM, Eric Belanger wrote:

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Hi,

I would like your opinion about moving links to core/support as suggested in FS#9432 in order to have a CLI browser available on the ISO. From the comments on the FR, some users needs to access a web page to enable their internet connection. It will also allow them to search the web/wiki for installation help. BTW, the FR got 9 votes since being submitted last Friday so it seem to be a popular request.

I think that it's a reasonable request as we already supply other network tools like openssh, iptables and netkit-telnet in core. Plus, we don't supply info pages so they need a browser to get that information on the web.

I say go for it - sounds like a great idea.

Huge +1 from me- I remember that I had to do a full install so I could get to a text mode web browser to activate my internet connection (register my MAC address), and then wiped the whole system so I could do a fresh up-to-date FTP install. -Dan

+1 missed that too.

On Feb 05, 2008 9:00 AM PST, Aaron Griffin wrote:

On Feb 4, 2008 8:35 PM, Eric Belanger wrote:

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Hi,

I would like your opinion about moving links to core/support as suggested in FS#9432 in order to have a CLI browser available on the ISO. From the comments on the FR, some users needs to access a web page to enable their internet connection. It will also allow them to search the web/wiki for installation help. BTW, the FR got 9 votes since being submitted last Friday so it seem to be a popular request.

I think that it's a reasonable request as we already supply other network tools like openssh, iptables and netkit-telnet in core. Plus, we don't supply info pages so they need a browser to get that information on the web.

I submit URLs to a daemon which emails them back to me[1], so I have no need of such a thing, but mere mortals may. Go for it

1: http://lwn.net/Articles/262570/

That's hardcore. Having just rebuilt my arch installation last night after a major SNAFU, I can now say I've missed this feature THREE times! =) Tip of the Day: Don't 'rm -rf /etc' when you have mountains of homework and a busy work schedule. It's not fun.