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 -- 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