Installing F15 without any active network?

[mike cloaked]

On Mon, Jul 4, 2011 at 4:18 PM, Ed Greshko <Ed.Greshko at greshko.com> wrote:
> On 07/04/2011 10:40 PM, mike cloaked wrote:
>>
>> Nope - no additional repos defined.....
>>
>> Can anyone else tell me if they have been able to install f15 on a
>> machine with no network connection - i.e. pull out the ethernet plug
>> and have no wireless and tell me if you can install f15 from a DVD....
>>
>
> I have, just now, started an install of F15 using the original DVD.  I
> did this on an Vbox VM with no network card assigned.
>
> It is currently in the installing packages phase.  Have I gotten past
> the point you've talked about?

Thanks Ed - I am really puzzled - is there any way that installing in
a VM is possibly different to a bare metal install?  I mean if the VM
set up bridging to the host machine's network then it presumably
thinks there is a network available even if it does not want to use
it?

Maybe if I set up a static ip address and let it continue perhaps the
rest of the install would go ahead once a (pretend) network was
defined - I didn't try that...

However there do seem to be related bugzilla reports:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=677773
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=689018
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=673824

Maybe I am hitting a version of one of these?

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mike c