Description of problem: I have successfully run preupgrade and am now trying to reboot to start the actual upgrade process. However, anaconda keeps trying to configure my network interface via NetworkManager. (/boot didn't have enough space to contain everything, but this was apparently not a problem so long as there was a wired network available. Which there is.) NetworkManager doesn't have a hope in *^%%! hell of configuring this network interface because it's configured statically. I therefore need a way of turning NetworkManager *OFF* and setting the network configuration manually. I have already tried adding "asknetwork", "ip=.... netmask=.... dns=.... gateway=...." to my boot command line, but NetworkManager ignored them all. Ditto with adding these parameters to my ks.cfg file. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: EVERY TIME!!! Steps to Reproduce: 1. Run preupgrade 2. Boot into the following kernel in my grub.conf file title Upgrade to Fedora 11 (Leonidas) kernel /upgrade/vmlinuz asknetwork preupgrade repo=hd::/var/cache/yum/preupgrade stage2=http://www.mirrorservice.org/sites/download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/releases/11/Fedora/i386/os/images/install.img ks=hd:UUID=75ca9d18-375e-41d2-96da-4f79794e4ba7:/upgrade/ks.cfg initrd /upgrade/initrd.img 3. Watch as NetworkManager repeatedly, stupidly tries to configure a network that isn't running DHCP. Actual results: Fedora 11 does not install. My blood pressure sky-rockets. Expected results: Fedora 10 is upgraded to Fedora 11. Additional info: Whose dumb idea was it to create an automated tool without a manual override?
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 475027 ***