F9 installation issues

Gerry Reno greno at verizon.net
Mon May 5 06:00:26 UTC 2008


Gerry Reno wrote:
> Well, I hacked my way through lots of installer bugs to an install 
> finally. Still does not look like all the files are there because 
> rescue can't find a whole system to mount under /mnt/sysimage. But it 
> only takes a few files to mess that up.
>
> Anyway, I asked for static network address and I checked ifcfg-eth0 
> and it is static but I can only get a dhcp assignment. I restarted the 
> network and same thing, it pulls a dhcp ip. I went into admin/network 
> and it's all static in there. So is there something different in f9 
> about getting a static ip?
>
> Regards,
> Gerry
>
Well, after trying about 10 times to edit ifcfg-eth0 and restart 
network, I finally get something.
RTNETLINK: File exists.
Error adding 192.168.1.15 for eth0.
but it seems to have worked.

I check ifconfig and now the address is static. So that was weird.

Regards,
Gerry




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