F8 - Post Install problems....
Craig White
craigwhite at azapple.com
Wed Dec 5 01:31:29 UTC 2007
On Tue, 2007-12-04 at 17:12 -0800, Daniel B. Thurman wrote:
> >From: fedora-list-bounces at redhat.com
> >[mailto:fedora-list-bounces at redhat.com]On Behalf Of Craig White
> >Sent: Tuesday, December 04, 2007 1:47 PM
> >To: For users of Fedora
> >Subject: RE: F8 - Post Install problems....
> >
> >
> >On Tue, 2007-12-04 at 13:37 -0800, Daniel B. Thurman wrote:
> >> >[mailto:fedora-list-bounces at redhat.com]On Behalf Of Craig White
> >> >Sent: Tuesday, December 04, 2007 12:43 PM
> >> >To: For users of Fedora
> >> >Subject: Re: F8 - Post Install problems....
> >> >
> >> >
> >> >On Tue, 2007-12-04 at 12:37 -0800, Daniel B. Thurman wrote:
> >> >> After getting my grub to work and now completed my post-installs,
> >> >> rebooting brought up a different problem....
> >> >>
> >> >> My Package updater fails to find the repository - so it seems.
> >> >>
> >> >> What do I need to do to get this working so that I can obtain the
> >> >> updates?
> >> >>
> >> >> Error reported:
> >> >> "
> >> >> Cannot retrieve repository metadata (repomd.xml) for
> >> >> respository: fedora. Please verify path and try again.
> >> >> "
> >> >----
> >> >can this system browse the Internet?
> >>
> >> uh, no. Seems that I need to do something (I forget) to
> >> access the Internet... I think it might be the firewall
> >> per F8. Can someone remind me what that might be?
> >----
> >Start => Administration => Security Level and Firewall
> >(that's KDE, GNOME would be similar)
> >or
> >system-config-securitylevel
> >
> >beyond that...
> >
> >give us output of...
> >
> >ifconfig
> >and
> >ipconfig /all # from your windows system
> >
> >and the settings should be obvious because the Windows system
> >is working
> >
> >Craig
> >
> >--
>
> There was a problem with getting F8-Live into accepting network
> information, i.e. that for some reason, the hostname, gateway,
> dns1, dns2 did not make it into the network configuration files.
>
> What it did do was to put my FQDN hostname, alias into the
> 127.0.0.1 host file. I edited the host file to add the line
>
> 10.1.0.143 linux.cdkkt.com linux
>
> rebooted, and nothing has changed.
>
> I noticed that no matter what I tried to do to with
> Administration->Network tool, the changes are never
> committed - permenantly even when I asked for changes
> to be saved.
>
> The system remains set into the defaults of:
>
> IP: 169.254.208.135
> NM: 255.255.0.0
>
> I cannot find the gateway setting using ifconfig. Of course
> in this case: ipconfig /all in Windows will fail since the
> network is not properly setup.
>
> What can I do to force my settings into the network file
> configurations?
----
OK - I thought I was clear in purpose but you didn't get it.
Linux is using ip 169.254.208.135/255.255.0.0 for zeroconf and I presume
expecting a dhcp server. Knowing that you are e-mailing from your
Windows machine which has an apparent IP address of orion.cdkkt.com
([216.99.218.209], I asked you to tell us what the output of that
Windows system.... ipconfig /all because that would tell us the details
of ip addressing/subnet mask/gateway address.
Short of that, you are either going to have to learn TCP/IP Networking
for yourself or ask me to make wild guesses, which I prefer not to do.
Craig
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