Re: initiating kickstart install from fc9 media

[John Summerfield <debian herakles homelinux org>]

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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