On Tue, 2008-12-02 at 08:28 -0500, Scott Robbins wrote:
Hrrm, I just tried this. I put a directory containing the contents of
the DVD on my little internal web server. I then copied the netinstall
iso to a USB, booted off it and chose ftp or url. (I think that's what
it was called.) It gave me the chance to put in my web server's URL
containing the image.
This was the x86_64 netinst.iso.
So, it worked for me as I would expect it to.
Looking at the what's new it seems as if it actually shouldn't have.
I used unetbootin to copy the image to the USB, and didn't even have to
type in askmethod. (Choosing default, which is always unetbootin's
first choice.)
You booted from USB, in which case loader did not find the local
install.img and thus had to seek out an install.img from a network
location, ergo it asked you where to get it from.
Had you burned the iso to media (CD/DVD) loader would have found the
local install.img and used that to launch the gui which would have then
defaulted to the mirrormanager link for getting the bits.
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