Kam Leo wrote:
> 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...
And this time it 'worked'.
Now I have to figure out how to deal with the small screen that the Eee
701 has...