On Tue, 2007-12-04 at 17:12 -0800, Daniel B. Thurman wrote: > >From: fedora-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx > >[mailto:fedora-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx]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@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 > > > >-- > > 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
