How to download a file without installing?- SOLVED

Anne Wilson cannewilson at googlemail.com
Sun Apr 20 16:04:06 UTC 2008


On Sunday 20 April 2008 10:57, Anne Wilson wrote:
> On Sunday 20 April 2008 03:49, Andrew Farris wrote:
> > Without a network connection you can only use rpm to install (rpm -i).  I
> > hope you worked this out or got a fresh install done.
>
> I finally got system-config-network 1.5.6 installed.  I broke all my rules
> to do it.  First - I logged in as root.  I then discovered that konsole
> runs as root, saving me the problem of not being able to switch between
> sessions.  It doesn't run as user.
>
> Next I edited /etc/yum.repos.d/fedora-rawhide.repo.  Remember that I had
> used the CLI --disablerepo=fedora-rawhide.repo earlier, without success. 
> At that point it seemed worth trying yum again, and apart from needing
> --nogpgcheck there was no problem at all.  It installed.
>
> That's the good news.  The bad news is that I still get '3c501 device eth0
> does not seem to be present, delaying initialization'.  Network is, of
> course, unreachable, therefore there are no updates available to me.
>
I've just spent an hour slowly trawling with the Live CD.  The nm-applet 
allowed me to configure networking and even worked.  So, if the LiveCD can 
correctly identify my pcmcia card and set it up, why can't an install from 
the same CD?

Anne




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