Installing F15 without any active network?

[Claude Jones]

On Monday, July 04, 2011, mike cloaked wrote:
> Ahh!  It was from a physical DVD - with the DVD install iso -
> nothing fancy - just a straightforward install as I have been
> doing since FC1 days - this is the first time I have come
> across any problem doing a standalone clean install from a DVD
> disk - it looks like it may be trying to activate updates when
> I was only after a basic install from the DVD (reason is that
> I was trying to install ahead of the network people amending
> the local LAN database to include the NIC MAC in the next few
> days - so until that is done there will be no network access
> or IP address assigned from DHCP - but getting the install
> done should have been a time saver in the meantime)

One thing that you may have done is to specify additional repos? 
That's a question that comes up fairly early in the installation 
as I recall. If you do so, it will seek to connect to the network 
and establish a connection to the additional repos you 
specified...

-- 
Claude Jones
Brunswick, MD, USA
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