Fedora Core 5 Startup Problem

[sigsaur40c]

I just recently installed Fedora Core 5 on a system at my house. I admit, I am not very Linux-fluent, but I did read through the documentation and have researched my problem, but I have not found a solution.

I am trying to run a game server that must be run off of a Linux OS, and I am used to Windows, so I chose Fedora for their GUI support, along with other good things I have heard about it.

I recently tried to add a static IP to the box, which I set up in the router. After I set the router, and the Linux box to the same static IP, the Linux box won't boot correctly. It goes to (I believe) an sdev prompt, that says "Hit I for Interactive Mode" ... after proceeding through that screen, it goes into the Load screen, and then shows me a blue desktop. There are no icons, no taskbars, nothing - only a mouse cursor that I cannot move.

Does anyone have any ideas of how I could fix this?

 

[RhythmAce]

They can't have the same ip. Your router will have the public ip on the WAN side and a private ip on the LAN side. This is usually something like 192.168.1.1. You will then need to assign a static ip to the server which would be something like 192.168.1.10. The subnet mask should be 255.255.255.0 and the dns server'r ip will be the ip of the router (it already knows where the address of the dns servers. Setup Port Forwarding on the router to send all http (port 80) traffic to 192.168.1.10 or whatever you assign to the server. Since your server is not booting correctly, There are a couple things you can do. First you can press the 'I' key to enter interactive mode the do NOT load the network stuff. If that doesn't work. Boot into single user mode or from the boot cd. At the boot prompt, type 'linux rescue'. You will be in text mode but thank goodness fedora has a text mode setup. Type 'setup' at the command prompt and reconfigure you network settings. Good luck.

 

[sigsaur40c]

I set up the IP's directly like that, fowarding the ports I need on the server through my router itself (ports 80, 8000, 5555, and 7272). Right now, my main starting IP is 192.186.1.1, the computer I use for daily activity is 192.168.1.100, and the server is set to 192.168.1.130.

I will try to run the Linux Rescue program and see what happens. Thanks for your help so far!

 

[franklin97355]

What happens if you let the server get an address with DHCP? I'm not sure your problem is a network problem. Even if you have an incorrect IP it should not keep your computer from booting. You should also check to see what range the DHCP server on the router uses and make sure the static IP you select is outside that range.

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[jshurst]

How many addresses is your router handling (what is the range)? If it is less than 30 then you are probably out of the range (since you set yours to 192.168.1.130). Have you tried to set it to something like 192.168.1.102 (then port forwarding to that address)?