F8 - Post Install problems....

[Craig White]

On Tue, 2007-12-04 at 19:00 -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 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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Of course it tells us all we need to know

On your Linux box...

IP Address:  10.1.0.110 #see note [1]
Subnet Mask: 255.255.255.0
DNS Address: 10.1.0.100
             10.1.0.5
Gateway:     10.1.0.200

You should be able to set the IP Address/Subnet Mask/Gateway in Network
Manager (you said you installed from Live CD) or by Start =>
Administration => Network

otherwise if you're editing files by hand as root...

/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0
DEVICE=eth0
ONBOOT=yes
NETMASK=255.255.255.0
IPADDR=10.1.0.110
GATEWAY=10.1.0.200
TYPE=Ethernet

and /etc/resolv.conf
search cdkkt.com
nameserver 10.1.0.100
nameserver 10.1.0.5

if you edit these by hand...then run
/sbin/service network restart

and you should be good to go

[1] I'm guessing that 10.1.0.110 is not being used. You can check this
first (probably a good idea) by opening up Dos Command prompt on Windows
computer and trying to ping it...

ping 10.1.0.110  
if it comes back with Request timed out or Host not found, use it. If
something pings, try another address like 10.1.0.111