On Wed, 2005-12-21 at 23:54 -0500, Robert Moskowitz wrote: > The CentOS drive for the HP NC4010 is built. I just needed to use > external instead of USB power for my USB CDrom. Go figure... > > I did this in my hotel room, where they only have wireless. I went > down to the 'business center' and used an ethernet drop, but I don't > think the registration worked. I didn't know that even for the > ehternet drops you have to do that portal thing with your > browser. How do I determine if the registration was completed. > > Now I am making headway, finally, on the Toshiba Portege 3490. > > I was having TERRIBLE timing problems with the multiport extender. > > Then I decided to THINK, and went into BIOS, changed the PCMCIA to 16 > bit cardbus, and the install is proceeding well. I have my 3COM 574 > LAN card in so that the install will do the network installs. And > the desk gave me a WET11 so I will have an ethernet drop in the room, > but I have to do the browser thing before I can register.... The registration thing is a (mostly neutered) hold over from the RHN registration process ... it is not required for CentOS. If you have issues, just do this while connected to the internet: rpm -e rhn-applet up2date gnome-up2date then yum install rhn-applet up2date gnome-up2date and all should be well. -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: This is a digitally signed message part URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20051222/1eb47b87/attachment-0005.sig>