On Tue, 2007-12-04 at 19:54 -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 7:32 PM > >To: For users of Fedora > >Subject: RE: F8 - Post Install problems.... > > > > > >On Tue, 2007-12-04 at 19:00 -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 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? > >---- > >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 > > > > > >-- > > Ah, 10.1.0.110 should have been 10.1.0.100 > > That is the internal host ip address of orion. I mistyped it. > > Ok, it turns out that I HAD all those settings. But it does > not work. I checked the messages logs and it shows me that > DHCP is clearly being used/attempted. This was the problem > created by F8-Live CD - it did not properly set my network > configuration. > > How can I disable DHCP and get my system back to "Static" IP? ---- orion is 10.1.0.100 the ip address for your Linux box MUST be something else, hence that is why I suggested 10.1.0.110 but test it to make sure that no other system is using the address. As for changing from DHCP, I thought that the manual setup would do just that. You can probably disable Network Manager by... chkconfig NetworkManager off chkconfig NetworkManagerDispatcher off service NetworkManager stop service NetworkManagerDispatcher stop I haven't used NetworkManager so I'm a little out of my knowledge base here. Craig
