On Fri, Apr 8, 2011 at 8:56 PM, Timothy Murphy <gayleard at eircom.net> wrote: > 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. This is a valid point. What booting system does the LiveCD use after transferring it to the USB stick? Perhaps a middle ground would be to create a wiki page on how to add the netinstall kernel/initrd to your own media. >>> 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/>. All I see there are instructions for the various methods of booting a kernel and initrd files from different media (or via PXE). As I said, if you can get the device to boot off the kernel you specify that is all you need, no special sauce required. >> 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. 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. -- William Hooper