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

[Robert Moskowitz]

Robert Moskowitz wrote:
> Kam Leo wrote:
>> On Thu, Oct 29, 2009 at 6:42 AM, Robert Moskowitz 
>> <rgm at htt-consult.com> wrote:
>>  
>>> 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
>>>>       
>>
>> I have no problem with either the F11 net-install CD or DVD. Which one
>> of the ISO images (Live-CD, CD-disc 1, net-install, or DVD) did you
>> use?
>
> It is the FC11 CD 1 that I downloaded back in August.
>
> I hit tab, got the prompt for the image load (don't have it in front 
> of me, so I don't have exact details), entered:
>
> <space>askmethod
>
>
> and pressed <enter> and it went on its merry way, not asking for any 
> method....
>
> I can try again... 

And this time it 'worked'.

Now I have to figure out how to deal with the small screen that the Eee 
701 has...