On Wed, 2006-11-15 at 18:51 -0600, Chris Mohler wrote: > > > On 11/15/06, David Siu <davidsiu@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Ugg... I dread downloading 6 iso files... I would have been > able to > get Fedora installed much faster through a network install... > My > concern now however is will my network card work at all in > FC6... I > would hate to have to download all the cds, burn them all, > install it, > only to find out that FC6 doesn't work with the network card. > Does > anyone know what significant changes there were that would > affect this > part of the installation process? > > David > > Possibly a dumb question - can you manually configure the IP address? > Or maybe deselect the ipv6? ---- Yes, you can manually pass an ip address instead of using DHCP Fedora has this really cool thing called an 'Installation Guide' Base URL http://fedora.redhat.com/docs/install-guide/fc6/ Manual configured IP at 'boot' prompt http://fedora.redhat.com/docs/install-guide/fc6/en/ap-admin-options.html#sn-boot-options-network Manual configured IP at 'ask method' http://fedora.redhat.com/docs/install-guide/fc6/en/sn-install-tcpip-config.html Note to Lonnie...the reference to the extra time it takes for ipv4 & ipv6 is on this last reference Craig
