On Monday, July 04, 2011, mike cloaked wrote: > Ahh! It was from a physical DVD - with the DVD install iso - > nothing fancy - just a straightforward install as I have been > doing since FC1 days - this is the first time I have come > across any problem doing a standalone clean install from a DVD > disk - it looks like it may be trying to activate updates when > I was only after a basic install from the DVD (reason is that > I was trying to install ahead of the network people amending > the local LAN database to include the NIC MAC in the next few > days - so until that is done there will be no network access > or IP address assigned from DHCP - but getting the install > done should have been a time saver in the meantime) One thing that you may have done is to specify additional repos? That's a question that comes up fairly early in the installation as I recall. If you do so, it will seek to connect to the network and establish a connection to the additional repos you specified... -- Claude Jones Brunswick, MD, USA |
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