Re: Starting up netinst to local repo

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On Tue, 2014-11-25 at 17:13 -0500, Robert Moskowitz wrote:
> On 11/25/2014 05:02 PM, Adam Williamson wrote:
> > On Tue, 2014-11-25 at 16:47 -0500, Robert Moskowitz wrote:
> >> I had notes from doing this a year ago, but can't find them.
> >>
> >> Where do I find what to add after press 'e' to activate the ethernet
> >> with dhcp so it can find my local repo instead of waiting for the slow
> >> download of the remote repodata, so then I can select my local repo?
> >>
> >> This SHOULD have been in my install notes from last time, and naturally
> >> it is not.
> > Er, what? It reads to me like what you want to do is not 'activate the
> > ethernet' (that still won't cause it to magically find a local
> > repository if you don't tell it where to look), but to configure a local
> > repository. You can do that on the cmdline with repo=(url) -
> > https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Anaconda_Boot_Options - or in a kickstart
> > with the 'url=' (or 'nfs=', for NFS) option -
> > https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Anaconda/Kickstart#url
> Kickstart!  ARGH!!!  Too much stuff today.  Testing while doing real work.
> 
> Sorry.  I have the clouding memory that when I only provided the url for 
> the repo, it still did not work and I had to provide kickstart commands 
> to use dhcp on the ethernet.  But at this point in today's work, I just 
> better go and read kickstart and start from the beginning....

For a kickstart, yeah, you might need to specify a line to enable
networking in the kickstart too. If you use the cmdline parameter, it'll
enable the network automatically.
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