On Fri, 2012-06-01 at 11:17 -0700, Chuck Forsberg WA7KGX N2469R
wrote:
> I did a fresh install of 64 bit F17 from the DVD on
omen.com yesterday.
> I was a bit alarmed at all the funny screens before Anaconda got the
> X server running.
>
> The install did not offer to check the DVD for errors.
> Apparently there weren't as the install proceeded without problems.
>
> The biggest problem is on F17 seems to be networking. The
omen.com
> machine talks to the internet using a PCI card. The motherboard
> gigabit ethernet talks to the local 192.168.1 net. As with F16 the
> brain damaged network connections GUI would not let me set
> the local net without specifying a gateway. This required me to
> manually edit the scripts before masquerading could work.
> Overnight the local net died and I decided to revert to the
> previously installed F16.
So...you're saying that F17 behaves exactly the same as F16 except
something went wrong.
This is very useful information and I shall work on fixing something
right away!