fedora 6 install breaks at network configuration

[Jim Cornette]

philn wrote:
> 
>>
>> In the text install, I found that I had to check the ipv4 box but not 
>> add any address information. Are you using the text installer? If not, 
>> I cannot recall if I had to do anything special in the GUI installer. 
>> If I did, I just checked ipv4 without actually adding an ip address.
>>
> 
> Thanks. I just tried that and got the same result. Here's what I did. 
> Text install - (for some reason the Media Check dialog changed from Test 
> & Skip, as it was earlier, to Test & Eject CD!) - so the CD checked OK - 
> then I did a custom partition leaving the windoze stuff and using only 
> one big / and a swap - then in Network Configuration I turned off dhcp, 
> turned on ipv4 (left the address lines blank), left Activate at Boot on 
> (whatever that means) and pressed the button. I then get an instant 
> Exception Occurred box and have to reboot after saving the dump.

All I can think of is to leave it set for dhcp until after the 
installation and configure it for static address with 
system-config-network after everything is installed. If you still get an 
exception, search for similar failures in bugzilla.redhat.com for 
anaconda and file a bug report if there is not one currently with your 
failure.
Another message in this thread suggested to not install network 
initially and then get it to work after installing Fedora.
You could wait for the Final release to come out and see if the problem 
that you are encountering is still there or check as previously 
mentioned if there are any bug reports with resolutions or workarounds 
for your error on install.

> 
> Beats me. It's a Compaq Deskpro PIII 933 with intel chips. Don't know 
> how that could affect this part of the install though. Debian actually 
> installed OK (it was the upgrading to Testing that was a little scary) - 
> I just want to use the dual head thing and I don't mind trying out the 
> rpm way (although they don't seem to be talking about that any more - in 
> favour of yum?)

rpm is still highly used. You just have yum as a dependency resolver 
instead of needing to pull in every needed package as the deps mount. 
There is an apt program which I believe is in Fedora Extras. This uses 
rpm to some extent also. I don't think it would use dselect and other 
.deb type mechanisms for installation.

Regarding getting dual head to work, you might try to get this to work 
in Debian by running 'X -configure' from runlevel 3 and copying the 
generated file from /root/xorg.conf.new to /etc/X11/xorg.conf or 
wherever Debian locates the xorg.conf file.
Running dual head is great for being able to get things done in a better 
way. The dual head in Linux is better in a lot of regards than the dual 
head in XP. Once you get it working, you will see the difference yourself.
> 
> Thanks again
> 
> phil n

I hope you get dual head working in either Debian or in Fedora. Debian
has a one up though, at least it installs for you. :-)
Jim


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