F8 - Post Install problems....

[Craig White]

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?
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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