On Fri, Apr 8, 2011 at 8:56 PM, Timothy Murphy gayleard@eircom.net wrote:
Phil Schaffner wrote:
Forgive me if I've missed it mentioned, but it looks like the option is only being removed from the LiveCD. Using the netinstall.iso is still available and would be a more efficient way of doing network installs anyway (9.5M vs 685M).
Precisely.
In my case, at least, I would always run a Live CD before installing an OS, just to make sure it runs OK. So a person might well have a Live USB stick anyway.
This is a valid point.
What booting system does the LiveCD use after transferring it to the USB stick? Perhaps a middle ground would be to create a wiki page on how to add the netinstall kernel/initrd to your own media.
Unless things have changed since I messed with network installs (which is has been a while), all you really need is some way to boot the kernel and initrd files. It doesn't matter if you start with grub, lilo, syslinux, etc.
This isn't as easy as you say, as the RHEL instructions illustrate: http://docs.redhat.com/docs/en- US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/5/html/Installation_Guide/.
All I see there are instructions for the various methods of booting a kernel and initrd files from different media (or via PXE). As I said, if you can get the device to boot off the kernel you specify that is all you need, no special sauce required.
Still works - can just copy vmlinuz and initrd.img from the images/pxeboot/ or isolinux/ directories and add a GRUB (or whatever bootloader) stanza to boot them.
So you believe this newbie who is confused by NFS is going to follow that advice?
I didn't make the above statement, but I expect a newbie will probably have or will obtain a working optical drive.
On the other hand, knowing how to create a linux boot media is probably a good lesson to learn. Newbies don't become experts by magic, they do it by learning new skills.