F8 - Post Install problems....

[Daniel B. Thurman]

>From: fedora-list-bounces at redhat.com
>[mailto:fedora-list-bounces at redhat.com]On Behalf Of Craig White
>Sent: Tuesday, December 04, 2007 5:31 PM
>To: For users of Fedora
>Subject: RE: F8 - Post Install problems....
>
>
>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
>
>-- 

Well, I did do an ipconfig /all but from the Ferdora box itself,
and of course it returned nothing at all.

But since you wanted an ipconfig /all from any windows box, here
is one:

Microsoft Windows 2000 [Version 5.00.2195]
(C) Copyright 1985-2000 Microsoft Corp.

C:\Documents and Settings\dant.CDKKT>ipconfig /all

Windows 2000 IP Configuration

        Host Name . . . . . . . . . . . . : orion
        Primary DNS Suffix  . . . . . . . : cdkkt.com
        Node Type . . . . . . . . . . . . : Hybrid
        IP Routing Enabled. . . . . . . . : No
        WINS Proxy Enabled. . . . . . . . : No
        DNS Suffix Search List. . . . . . : cdkkt.com

Ethernet adapter 10.1.0.100:

        Connection-specific DNS Suffix  . :
        Description . . . . . . . . . . . : Intel(R) PRO/100 VE Network Connection
        Physical Address. . . . . . . . . : 00-D0-B7-B5-0B-B5
        DHCP Enabled. . . . . . . . . . . : No
        IP Address. . . . . . . . . . . . : 10.1.0.100
        Subnet Mask . . . . . . . . . . . : 255.255.255.0
        Default Gateway . . . . . . . . . : 10.1.0.200
        DNS Servers . . . . . . . . . . . : 10.1.0.100
                                            10.1.0.5
        Primary WINS Server . . . . . . . : 10.1.0.5
        Secondary WINS Server . . . . . . : 10.1.0.100

Will this help?


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