On Thu, Oct 29, 2009 at 6:42 AM, Robert Moskowitz
<rgm(a)htt-consult.com> wrote:
> I am now trying a FC11 install, I tried the recommendation below that worked
> with FC10, to press tab then enter askmethod. But this did not work. It
> went right along to install from CD, not giving me the option to point it to
> my local http repo server....
>
> Aldo Foot wrote:
>
>> On Wed, Sep 9, 2009 at 2:59 PM, Robert Moskowitz<rgm(a)htt-consult.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>
>>> I am doing yet another install, this time on a Dell SFF with an internal
>>> CD.
>>>
>>> I want to do a network install from my local repo.
>>>
>>> With older Redhat stuff, I did a 'linux askmethod' at the enter
prompt.
>>> I
>>> have noticed with FC10, that I would frequently not be given the chance
>>> to
>>> press enter, let alone type in the above command, but I would be given a
>>> menu that would allow me to supply a URL anyway.
>>>
>>> Well on this system I go right to the menu about
>>> install/recover/bootlocal/memcheck and from here it goes into the install
>>> from CD without ever being given the option to provide the URL of my
>>> local
>>> repo. Even if I let it go all the way to where you can provide which
>>> repos
>>> to load from, I cannot see how to point the installation repo to my
>>> network
>>> one.
>>>
>>> I have tried various combinations of F1, F2, F3 at that startup menu, but
>>> I
>>> never can get it to a point to let me provide the URL of my repo.
>>>
>>> Am I going to have to use a USB CD drive to trick it?
>>>
>>>
>>>
>> _____
>>
>> Try with the TAB key as suggested here.
>>
>>
http://docs.fedoraproject.org/release-notes/f10/en_US/What_is_New_for_Ins...
>>
>> ~af
>>
I have no problem with either the F11 net-install CD or DVD. Which one
of the ISO images (Live-CD, CD-disc 1, net-install, or DVD) did you
use?
It is the FC11 CD 1 that I downloaded back in August.
I hit tab, got the prompt for the image load (don't have it in front of
me, so I don't have exact details), entered:
<space>askmethod
and pressed <enter> and it went on its merry way, not asking for any
method....
I can try again...