Fedora FC6 network install problems with eVGA nForce 680i, motherboard

[David Siu]

Yeah, when I get a chance, I'll list the message that it comes up
with. I didn't see anything entirely obvious as to what the cause of
the problem was. Thanks for trying to help!

David


On 11/15/06, Lonni J Friedman <netllama at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 11/15/06, spmirowski <spmirowski at shaw.ca> wrote:
> > >
> > > From: "David Siu" <davidsiu at gmail.com>
> > >
> > >
> > > Ugg... I dread downloading 6 iso files... I would have been able to
> > > get Fedora installed much faster through a network install... My
> > > concern now however is will my network card work at all in FC6... I
> > > would hate to have to download all the cds, burn them all, install it,
> > > only to find out that FC6 doesn't work with the network card. Does
> > > anyone know what significant changes there were that would affect this
> > > part of the installation process?
> > >
> > > David
> > Have you checked the FC6 release notes?
> >
> > If you do end up downloading a new copy of FC6, I recommend going with
> > a Fedora Unity respin, since it would have more up-to-date packages.
>
> There's nothing in the release notes related to this problem.  I'd
> still be curious what exactly the system is doing when the dhcp
> request fails.  Can you switch over to the virt console and see what
> the messages look like?
>
>
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