diff --git a/core/includes/install.core.inc b/core/includes/install.core.inc
index 6e2cc67..53b7a5f 100755
--- a/core/includes/install.core.inc
+++ b/core/includes/install.core.inc
@@ -690,6 +690,7 @@ function install_tasks_to_perform($install_state) {
  *   A list of tasks, with associated metadata.
  */
 function install_tasks($install_state) {
+  global $settings;
   // Determine whether a translation file must be imported during the
   // 'install_import_translations' task. Import when a non-English language is
   // available and selected.
@@ -701,8 +702,8 @@ function install_tasks($install_state) {
 
   // Determine whether we are hiding some options that can be pre-selected.
   $multiple_profiles = count($install_state['profiles']) != 1;
-  $profile_preselected = isset($install_state['parameters']['profile']) && !empty($install_state['parameters']['profile']);
-  $language_preselected = isset($install_state['parameters']['langcode']) && !empty($install_state['parameters']['langcode']);
+  $profile_preselected = isset($settings['parameters']['profile']) && !empty($settings['parameters']['profile']);
+  $language_preselected = isset($settings['parameters']['langcode']) && !empty($settings['parameters']['langcode']);
 
   // Start with the core installation tasks that run before handing control
   // to the installation profile.
diff --git a/core/install.php b/core/install.php
index 15764a8..f7418ae 100755
--- a/core/install.php
+++ b/core/install.php
@@ -26,15 +26,12 @@
   exit;
 }
 
+$settings = array();
 // Look for a distribution file.
-if (is_file(DRUPAL_ROOT . '/profiles/distribution.php')) {
-  include(DRUPAL_ROOT . '/profiles/distribution.php');
+if (is_readable(dirname(__DIR__) . '/profiles/distribution.php')) {
+  include dirname(__DIR__) . '/profiles/distribution.php';
 }
 
-// Make sure a $settings array exists. There may not have been one in the file.
-if (!isset($settings)) {
-  $settings = array();
-}
 // Start the installer.
 require_once __DIR__ . '/includes/install.core.inc';
 install_drupal($settings);
diff --git a/core/profiles/example.distribution.php b/core/profiles/example.distribution.php
index 3803392..4e193b3 100755
--- a/core/profiles/example.distribution.php
+++ b/core/profiles/example.distribution.php
@@ -16,11 +16,38 @@
  *
  */
 
-$settings = array(
-  'interactive' => TRUE,
-  'parameters' => array(
-    'profile' =>'standard',
-    'langcode' => 'en',
-  ),
-  'theme' => 'stark',
-);
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+// Whether a translation file for the selected language will be downloaded
+// from the translation server.
+$settings['download_translation'] = FALSE;
+// An array of forms to be programmatically submitted during the
+// installation. The keys of each element indicate the name of the
+// installation task that the form submission is for, and the values are
+// used as the $form_state['values'] array that is passed on to the form
+// submission via drupal_form_submit().
+$settings['forms'] = array();
+// Whether or not this installation is interactive. By default this will
+// be set to FALSE if settings are passed in to install_drupal().
+$settings['interactive'] = TRUE;
+// An array of parameters for the installation, pre-populated by the URL
+// or by the settings passed in to install_drupal(). This is primarily
+// used to store 'profile' (the name of the chosen installation profile)
+// and 'langcode' (the code of the chosen installation language), since
+// these settings need to persist from page request to page request before
+// the database is available for storage.
+$settings['parameters'] = array(
+  'profile' => 'standard',
+  'langcode' => 'en',
+);
+// An array of server variables that will be substituted into the global
+// $_SERVER array via drupal_override_server_variables(). Used by
+// non-interactive installations only.
+$settings['server'] = array();
+// The server URL where the interface translation files can be downloaded.
+// Tokens in the pattern will be replaced by appropriate values for the
+// required translation file.
+$settings['server_pattern'] = 'http://ftp.drupal.org/files/translations/%core/%project/%project-%version.%language.po';
+// An array of translation files URIs available for the installation. Keyed
+// by the translation language code.
+$settings['translations'] = array();
+// The name of the default theme to use.
+$settings['theme'] = 'stark';