On Fri, 2009-05-22 at 11:43 -0500, Styma, Robert E (Robert) wrote:
1. Starting with Fedora 10, the boot.iso disk does not prompt you for
the install method unless you press the TAB key and add the
parameter askmethod to the parameters. This is not how it is
documented and took a while to figure out. If you just press
enter, it goes right to anaconda and says:
"Local Installation Media Found"
It then tries to use the boot.iso CD as the install media which
of course does not work. The correction is to add the askmethod
parm to default parameters on the boot.iso image. Having the
default action be something that does not work is not good.
Greetings Bob,
Starting with Fedora 10, the boot.iso contains both stage#1 and stage#2
(aka install.img) needed by the installer. The only missing pieces are
the packages. You will be prompted later for the correctly repository
access methods during installation.
If you want a physical media solution that doesn't require extra steps,
you are probably looking for a DVD installation. The Fedora 11
installation guide (
http://rlandmann.fedorapeople.org/Installation%
20Guide/en-US/html/sn-which-files.html) attempts to outline the
differences between the bootable installer files.
Thanks,
James