Installing F15 without any active network?

[Aaron Konstam]

On Tue, 2011-07-05 at 17:05 +0100, mike cloaked wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 4, 2011 at 10:06 PM, Aaron Konstam <akonstam at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
> 
> > We are going around in circles. My question to you was did you use the
> > "Install a new system or upgrade an existing system" option?
> >
> > You responded:
> > "Install new system was the option - if you go from there you don't
> > reach any repo definition options in the steps until you hit this
> > problem immediately after trying to click to move on from the
> > bootloader section."
> >
> > So now we hear you did use the option I asked you about.
> >
> > You wanted to know if any one ignored the set network option that
> > appears after the you set the host name. I said I did not set up the
> > network at that point and the installation continued. Did you set the
> > host name? Was it after that your installation crapped out?
> >
> > Maybe if we knew exactly what selections you made from the menus after
> > you choose the boot option you chose we could have more of an idea what
> > went wrong.
> 
> Forget it - the machine in question is now registered on the network
> so the install will work when I can get back to it in the next day or
> so in between other work.  I have a test laptop at home, and I will
> check a clean install on it using an original physical DVD in the
> coming week.
> 
> All I asked was whether someone had successfully installed F15 from
> the DVD install iso using an optical disk drive, for a clean install
> on bare metal, without any wired or wireless network - clearly nobody
> replied on that - perhaps they could not reply since they could not
> install- hah!
> 
> Anyway this particular thread does not seem to be getting anywhere so
> just drop it - I will do my own investigation.
> 
> -- 
> mike c

I am glad to drop it but 2 people said they had done the installation
without having setup networking right after entering the host name.
Since you never got to the adding repo stage their setting up networking
at that point in the installation that seems irrelevant. You seem to
ignore their testimony and don't want their help so investigate away.
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