On Mon, Jul 4, 2011 at 3:35 PM, Claude Jones <cjoneslists@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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... Nope - no additional repos defined..... Can anyone else tell me if they have been able to install f15 on a machine with no network connection - i.e. pull out the ethernet plug and have no wireless and tell me if you can install f15 from a DVD.... -- mike c -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
