Please help smoke test Fedora 11 installation! - askmethod

[James Laska]

On Fri, 2009-05-22 at 11:43 -0500, Styma, Robert E (Robert) wrote:
> 
> 1.  Starting with Fedora 10, the boot.iso disk does not prompt you for
>     the install method unless you press the TAB key and add the 
>     parameter askmethod to the parameters.  This is not how it is 
>     documented and took a while to figure out.  If you just press 
>     enter, it goes right to anaconda and says:
>     "Local Installation Media Found"
>     It then tries to use the boot.iso CD as the install media which
>     of course does not work.  The correction is to add the askmethod
>     parm to default parameters on the boot.iso image.  Having the
>     default action be something that does not work is not good.

Greetings Bob,

Starting with Fedora 10, the boot.iso contains both stage#1 and stage#2
(aka install.img) needed by the installer.  The only missing pieces are
the packages.  You will be prompted later for the correctly repository
access methods during installation.

If you want a physical media solution that doesn't require extra steps,
you are probably looking for a DVD installation.  The Fedora 11
installation guide (http://rlandmann.fedorapeople.org/Installation%
20Guide/en-US/html/sn-which-files.html) attempts to outline the
differences between the bootable installer files.

Thanks,
James

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