Fedora 13 boot.iso not working with "askmethod"

H.S. hs.samix at gmail.com
Sun Jul 11 04:33:36 UTC 2010


On 10-07-10 11:59 PM, JD wrote:
>    On 07/10/2010 08:57 PM, H.S. wrote:
>> On 10-07-10 11:34 PM, JD wrote:
>>> No.
>>> The slashes were used for emphasis.
>>> Sorry!!!
>>
>> Well, discovered a work around. I used the "asknetwork" option just to
>> try it out (since askmethod was not letting the system proceed to the
>> questions), selected dhcp auto method and in the next question screen
>> chose to go "Back" and lo and behold, the screen it gave me asked me to
>> choose the method of installation and I selected URL. I gave the URL and
>> the installation is now proceeding.
>>
>> So it is working, but "askmethod" did not work. Is there a bug?
> Well, most blogs I read about askmethod, say:
>
>
> "Try a network install by pressing TAB and entering "linux askmethod"
> at the prompt."
>
> Is that what you did?
>
>

No, not that exactly. I appended "askmethod" at end of the kernel line 
starting with vmlinuz that I got by pressing TAB.

Do you mean that I should *erased* the whole line and typed "linux 
askmethod" and booted?







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