Description of problem: Installing RHEL 5 (as per the version on porkchop) (i.e. RHEL5-Server-20070208.0-x86_64-disc1-ftp.iso et al.) on a Dell Poweredge 1850 server. After configuration of eth0, anaconda insists that eth1 also requires either an ipv4 or ipv6 address or both. It ought to be possible to leave the network devices unconfigured if required How reproducible: Every time. Steps to Reproduce: 1. Install RHEL 5.0 on a machine with >1 ethernet cards 2. Attempt to leave one of the cards unconfigured. Actual results: Impossible to move to next stage of the installation without configuring all of the network cards. Also if I move back to the configuration of the first card from the config screen for the second card, then it changes the configuration back to the default (get address from DHCP) rather than what I'd previously configured (set ipv4 address manually). I would have expected it to have retained the previously assigned configuration. Expected results: Should carry on and ignore the unconfigured network card.
This sounds like text mode. Either way, the network configuration interfaces (both text and graphical) in RHEL5 are just a bit stupid in some instances. Need to rewrite the loops for a lot of that stuff. Have it all fixed in rawhide, just need to pull over the relevant code for RHEL-5.1.
Yes, it is text mode, sorry, I should have mentioned that in the report.
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 218200 ***