>From: fedora-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx >[mailto:fedora-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx]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@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 > >-- 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? No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.5.503 / Virus Database: 269.16.13/1169 - Release Date: 12/3/2007 10:56 PM
