William Hooper wrote on 04/08/2011 03:50 PM: > 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. > 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. I remember using the boot loader of an existing > system to start the network install (but I don't remember what version > it was) on a machine without a working optical drive. 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. > 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 Phil