FC10 install will not offer 'askmethod'

Robert Moskowitz rgm at htt-consult.com
Thu Sep 10 00:05:01 UTC 2009


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
YES!

That was the ticket.

Thanks.




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