William Hooper wrote:
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.
I suspect that the lack of a CD/DVD drive on the HP microserver is probably part, or perhaps the start, of a trend. Logically, there seems very little reason today to have such a drive, so I assume they will die out like floppy disks and PS/2 mice.
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.
I would have thought learning how to use NFS was much more useful than playing with grub and initrd.