Re: [CentOS] CentOS-5.5 Live CD & netinstall

On 4/8/2011 7:55 AM, Phil Schaffner wrote:

Timothy Murphy wrote on 04/07/2011 08:47 AM:

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Network Installation from CentOS Live CD will no longer be available. (Why not, as a matter of interest?)

Because network installs tend to be problematic for all but those with local repositories or flawless broadband network connections. Having it present was raising unrealistic expectations of netinstall as a viable option, and resulting in bad first experiences with CentOS and a large support burden.

None of that applies to NFS installs against locally downloaded isos - which is the fastest/easiest approach to a full set of install choices unless it is your first machine and you don't have anything to act as the server.