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

[Robert Moskowitz]

Jim wrote:
> On 10/29/2009 05:08 PM, Robert Moskowitz wrote:
>> 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...
>>
> I hav a E 701, you won't have any problem , just be sure it's setup 
> for 800x600.

Well I regularly did not see the bottom of the screen, and just 'knew' 
to press <alt-N> to move to the next screen.  Fortunately all the 
important stuff for Disk Druid is on the top.  But when it came to 
custom software install, I could only unclick office productivity and go 
with that, as the field for 'customize now' was off the screen, and I 
did not remember what the keystroke for it is.

And isn't the E 701 800x480?