Fedora 14 Minimum Install Challenges

I decided to play with KVM since everyone is talking about it, and did a minimal install of Fedora 14 to use as hypervisor for KVM.

I was quite happy with how "minimal" this install really was, and during boot time only 10 or so services were started. However, I came across some problems, and this was a great opportunity to learn.

• No Internet Connectivity
• Did ifconfig and did not see eth0
• Did ifconfig eth0 up, which didn't give an ip to the nic
• Did dhclient eth0 (thanks to xand in #networking on Freenode). However, this will have to be done after every reboot and doesn't enable eth0 automatically at boot time
• Type chkconfig network on
• Edit /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0 (thank you nirik on #fedora on Freenode)
• ONBOOT="yes"
• BOOTPROTO="dhcp"
• NM_CONTROLLED="no" (So both network and NM don't fight)
• Here is more information on editing ifcfg files
• Since I did a "minimal" install, I do want to keep this small and that's why I didn't install NetworkManager or system-config-network utilities whereas they could've made my job a lot easier as far as configuring network goes.
• No Nano
• yum install nano
• But this wasn't working for me before because I had no internet, so I edited the above file using vi. Another great learning opportunity.
• Link to vi Cheat Sheet
• Disable SELinux and IPTables
• For temporary disable do "echo 0 >/selinux/enforce"
• For permanent permissive or disable mode, edit /etc/selinux/config
• Here is more information on changing SELinux settings
• For my environment, I do not need iptables
• chkconfig iptables off
• chkconfig ip6tables off
• Reboot