Timothy Murphy wrote: >>> I've looked quite carefully at my CentOS-5.5 Live CD (on a USB stick), >>> and I don't see a Network Install option anywhere. > >> Try hitting the space bar during the Automatic boot countdown screen. >> That should give you the boot menu with the option to do the network >> install. > > Thanks. > I had actually found that by chance. To continue my personal saga, I did manage to get CentOS-5.5 running on my HP micro-server (an excellent machine, by my experience so far) by running Network Install, as was suggested, from a CentOS Live USB stick, and accessing the DVD ISO on another machine by NFS. I had already partitioned the hard disk with the USB stick, so I opted for a Custom Installation (as I always do) and used these partitions. The only slight problem was that when I re-booted after installation, I could only get a grub> prompt, and no kernel could be found. (Also, rather oddly, during installation I was only offered /dev/sda2 - which I had nominated as /boot - as location for grub installation.) I checked with the USB stick that everything was in place on the hard disk, and then mounted /dev/sda5 as /mnt/hd , and /dev/sda2 as /mnt/hd/boot , and ran "grub-install --root-directory=/mnt/hd /dev/sda". This gave the warning that /boot/grub/devices.map had /dev/sda as hd1 and /dev/sdb (the USB stick) as hd0. But after editing devices.map and running grub-install again, all was well, and I could re-boot into CentOS on the hard disk. If anyone can suggest a simpler way of installing CentOS on a machine without a CD drive I should be interested to hear. -- Timothy Murphy e-mail: gayleard /at/ eircom.net tel: +353-86-2336090, +353-1-2842366 s-mail: School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland