On Wed, 2009-11-25 at 18:05 -0600, Jim Haynes wrote: > On Wed, 25 Nov 2009, Adam Williamson wrote: > > > On Wed, 2009-11-25 at 15:37 -0600, Jim Haynes wrote: > > > >> I've been assuming there was a problem using SATA disks, with them not > >> showing up in Anaconda, until someone told me about the dregs of a > >> dmraid array on disk causing Anaconda not to show it, and using the > >> nodmraid boot option to get around it. I never would have guessed... > > > > This is intentional behaviour on the part of the installer and is > > documented, I believe. Hence there's not much more QA can do about this. > > I hope it's documented, but I sure didn't know where to go to look for it. > Partly because this was my first-ever experience with an SATA disk, and > I had no idea the disk had dregs of a dmraid array on it (nor how to get > rid of them). I had first run across the problem in F11, then tested > that F10 would see the disk OK, and set the problem aside until F12 was > imminent. (And then you go to a Best Buy or similar store looking at > disks and there is a poster saying SATA disks only work with Windows, > so I had further reason to be misled into thinking there was some problem > with them.) > > > Well, this has been reported, but the correct method here is to use > > NetworkManager rather than system-config-network to set up the dial-up > > connection, I believe. It's something that's pretty niche for QA to have > > caught (you need to be using dial-up *and* use s-c-n rather than > > NetworkManager). > > I've never learned how to use NetworkManager, and in fact I don't know > where to go to learn how. The times it has been turned on it has done > what I don't want done. For example with Ethernet I use fixed IP > addresses on my local LAN, and NetworkManager apparently doesn't like > that - maybe it wants me to be running a DHCP server. I'm not sure where it's documented, but I believe you can use NetworkManager in a non-dhcp static IP network. Right-click on the nm-applet icon and select 'Edit connections...', or start the application 'nm-connection-editor'. From there, create a new wired network connection and supply the static IP information. <snip> Thanks, James
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