On Wednesday 17 March 2010 02:41:02 pm Jesse Keating wrote:
> Seems rather dumb for ethernet networking to be configured prior
to
> installation (via cmdline), and installation performed over ethernet, and
> then have network not up by default on first boot, quite in contrast to
> installation via OM or HD, which may never need any networking.
OM or HD installs also don't enable the network by default, the user
will have to take some action to turn the network on in those cases.
The minimal case is "special" because it is lacking in a number of
packages, such as the NetworkManager stack, which is Fedora's preferred
method of managing the network.
It was not the intent of the minimal platform install project to have a non-
functioning network. It used to work, so this would be a regression.
-Steve