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.
You really need to consider that people may not be in exactly the same position as yourself.
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/.
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?
The issues you saw with grub being installed on the USB stick instead of the HDD are a bigger concern in my book. I wonder if you you have better luck installing GRUB on the HDD MBR, booting from the HDD and using grub to load the kernel and initrd off the USB stick.
That is a known issue and is addressed in the Wiki article: http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/InstallFromUSBkey