initiating kickstart install from fc9 media
John Summerfield
debian at herakles.homelinux.org
Wed Sep 24 15:45:23 UTC 2008
Richard wrote:
> Hi John,
>
> john> I-m _sure_ that's what I did years ago, say RHL 7.x or so.
>
> I don't think so. I never used RHL 7.x but RHL 5.2, 6, 9 and Fedora up
You're right, I have a set of RHL 7.3 CDs right here.
> to 4 (the most recent one I used before Fedora 9) all (by default) pause
> at a "boot:" prompt during the boot sequence from the standard media. At
> that boot: prompt you can directly enter:
> linux ks=http://ksserver.example.com/ks.cfg ksdevice=eth0
>
> The Fedora 9 install process goes straight passed the 'old' boot: prompt
> and doesn't pause until it gets to the "Welcome to Fedora 9" menu?
> There is an option to edit one of the menu options (by hitting TAB) but
> when you do so you are NOT dropped to the boot prompt and have to enter
> a subtly different command line.
That much was clear enough it didn't confuse me.
>
> However, you CAN get back to the boot prompt on Fedora 9 from this menu.
> To do so, you simply hit ESCAPE (as stated in Jeroen's answer
I wasn't confused about that either:-) Didn't know it was possible.
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John
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