F16 askmethod works

Mike Chambers mike at miketc.net
Thu Sep 29 17:19:41 UTC 2011


On Wed, 2011-09-28 at 23:01 +0200, A.J. Werkman wrote:
> I found an odd behaviour with askmethod. I found this in Beta RC3.
> 
> When installing from a local http repo I normally give a repo= parameter 
> on the boot commandline. In anaconda still in text mode I am presented 
> with a UI to configure networking.
> 
> When I pass askmethod to the commandline and afterwards choose http 
> installation source, anaconda just fires a IPv4 DHCP process without 
> prompting for network parameters. In my situation installation then 
> fails because there is no DHCP server on the network, as there even is 
> no IPv4 on that network.

What if you just do asknetwork?


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