EL & FEDORA NETINSTAL INSTALLATION

This is a short overview of usage of the NetInstall ISO files that Red Hat, CentOS, and even Fedora make available.

ACQUIRE THE ISO

For simplicity I will only link to the CentOS & Fedora images.

• CentOS 6 i386
• CentOS 6 x86_64
• CentOS 7 i386
• CentOS 7 x86_64
• Fedora

For CentOS you will be brought to a mirror list, choose one. Then pick the appropriate NetInstall ISO to download.

IMAGE YOUR MEDIA

Next we need to image your media with the ISO.

• CLI -- edit iso name and drive name appropriately

  dd bs=4M if=/path/to.iso of=/dev/sdXX
  

• GUI via Etcher

• GUI via Fedora Disk Writer

*RUN THE INSTALLER ON TARGET

Boot the installer on your target machine.

The installer is rather straightforward. When you get to the installation source, you will need to select a mirror or have the autoselection take place.

To setup the URL for the autoselection:

• The protocol pulldown needs to be

  http://
  

• The CentOS 6 i386 URL is

  mirror.centos.org/centos/6/os/i386/
  

• The CentOS 6 x86_64 is

  mirror.centos.org/centos/6/os/x86_64/
  

• The CentOS 7 i386 URL is

  mirror.centos.org/altarch/7/os/i386/
  

• The CentOS 7 x86_64 is

  mirror.centos.org/centos/7/os/x86_64/