I'm trying to do a local install, I've copied my 4 b5 cds to
/var/www/html/rpmcache and turned indexing on in apache. For reference,
my laptop's ip address is 192.168.45.3. SELinux disabled; service
iptables stop;
Stuff I didn't see in the quickstart that slowed me down included:
- a pretty quick example of how anaconda expects the install
directories. Having used User Mode Linux and those various yum-based
install hacks, I started off just by copying all the rpms into one
directory, and realized that it actually wanted all the files on the cds.
- should I expect dhcp from anaconda to work OOTB? Not so much. Is there
a host configuration I need? Does host need to run dhcpd? Am I running
as if the host is my gateway? If I'm bridged, I wouldn't think so, but
if I can't get a dhcp lease off the network, what's blocking me?
- an example of sane network numbers to use. Comming from a UML
background, I'm used to setting up a 10-network behind a tun device. Now
I have a bridged network connection, so I'm guessing I can just use the
next logical lan address, 192.168.45.202. However, I can't tell why my
anaconda can't contact 192.168.45.201. It's not worth specifying
127.0.0.1 from anaconda. Was it an error to specify
http://localhost/rpmcache/ on the command line python script? Tried
again with http://192.168.45.201/rpmcache/disk1/, no connection to httpd
server. Is this install process not intended to interact with dom0 port 80?
I'm sure there's prolly something simple that I've skipped, but I can't
see it. Is there a way to diagnose the network connection? I admit to
not having scrutinized the list closely, but I don't see any posts in
the archives discussing my issue.
I've gotten so much further this time than with FC4+Xen, it's not
crashing and freezing my machine, I can't be far away. Help appreciated.
TIA.
Jed
