On Wed, 1 Apr 2009, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
again, doing i386 and x86_64 installs in parallel, the i386 install demands that i *need* a network interface to continue, but neither of these systems is connected to the net -- i want to do just DVD-based installs for both of them.
the x86_64 install is at the point where it's askimg me for my choice of software, but the i386 install has already aborted. a second attempt produced the same results for i386.
and, no, i definitely did not select the rawhide repository for additional software. has anyone else seen this? i'm going to try a third time to make sure it happens again.
ok, i've tried this again a couple of times for each type of install, and now i fail invariably because the install *insists* that i need an active net connection to continue based on my software repositories.
this disgnostic is displayed after i format my filesystems and before i've even *selected* which repositories i want to use during the install. weirdly, i got past this point to the software selection phase not that long ago on the x86_64 install but now, both installs fail, demanding that they need a net connection to continue.
is this a known issue? it's kind of problematic.
rday