On Tue, 2007-12-04 at 13:37 -0800, Daniel B. Thurman wrote: > >[mailto:fedora-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx]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
