F17 FAIL - long live F16

[David]

On 6/1/2012 3:25 PM, Adam Williamson wrote:
> On Fri, 2012-06-01 at 11:17 -0700, Chuck Forsberg WA7KGX N2469R wrote:
>> I did a fresh install of 64 bit F17 from the DVD on omen.com yesterday.
>> I was a bit alarmed at all the funny screens before Anaconda got the
>> X server running.
>>
>> The install did not offer to check the DVD for errors.
>> Apparently there weren't as the install proceeded without problems.
>>
>> The biggest problem is on F17 seems to be networking.  The omen.com
>> machine talks to the internet using a PCI card.  The motherboard
>> gigabit ethernet talks to the local 192.168.1 net.  As with F16 the
>> brain damaged network connections GUI would not let me set
>> the local net without specifying a gateway.  This required me to
>> manually edit the scripts before masquerading could work.
>> Overnight the local net died and I decided to revert to the
>> previously installed F16.
> 
> So...you're saying that F17 behaves exactly the same as F16 except
> something went wrong.
> 
> This is very useful information and I shall work on fixing something
> right away!
> 


And be quick about!!  :-)

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  David