Now with FC11 -- RE: FC10 install will not offer 'askmethod'

Robert Moskowitz rgm at htt-consult.com
Thu Oct 29 13:42:38 UTC 2009


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 at 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_Installation_and_Live_Images.html
>
> ~af
>
>   




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