On Mon, Mar 28, 2011 at 10:59:23AM -0500, Les Mikesell wrote: > On 3/28/2011 10:41 AM, Timothy Murphy wrote: > > Ray Van Dolson wrote: > > > >> Why not use the netinstall ISO rather than download everything? > > > > How exactly do I do this? > > I guess I could install it on a USB stick, > > and boot that on my new server. > > Is that what you mean? > > (There is no CD drive on the server.) > > Yes, there should be a small boot image along with the isos that you can > boot from usb or pxe, then you pick the nfs install method and put in > the path to the directory where you downloaded the CD iso images. There > are other network install options, but nfs is quick and easy if you've > already downloaded the iso images. Yep, or point to an internet-sourced HTTP address and let the install run overnight if you've got a slow connection... One _real_ quick way to join all your CD ISO's together is to use fuse-unionfs on an existing Linux box. Tell it to union each of your loopback mounted ISO mountpoints into a new mountpoint, then export that via NFS to your installation client (or via HTTP). Ray