F10 Beta static ip

[David G. Mackay]

On Thu, 2008-10-09 at 10:30 +0200, David Jansen wrote:

> Similar to bugzilla #392021 and #374271 I guess, has been this way since
> Fedora 8. We use static ip addresses here as well, but I had to set up a
> dhcp server to hand out those same addresses based on mac address, just
> to make installs work. Quite a pain, and it would be good to get the
> old, correct behaviour back (Fedora <= 7 worked fine, and so does RHEL 4 &
> 5), ie: anaconda should do what the user (or kickstart file) tells it to
> do, and not force dhcp on everyone.

FWIW, I've installed F9 on several machines using dvd on some and
network install on others without a problem.  It's the use of
NetworkManager in Anaconda that's causing the trouble.  I was hoping for
a workaround.  I also hope that this will be resolved by the full
release.

Dave