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You can skip most of those steps doing a network install with unetbootin, no cds or usb drives needed http://unetbootin.sourceforge.net/

• yoasif_ 14y ago
  I've used UNetbootin, and as far as I know, there is no way to do a netboot/install without any media. I took a look at the site, and it doesn't appear to have any information about that. Are you aware of some functionality that isn't listed on the site? For what it's worth, UNetbootin is a really nice way to create liveUSB drives that you can use to install Linux/BSD.
  • darkstalker 14y ago
    Select type "hard disk" (last row of options) instead of "usb drive". I've used it do to full network installs of centOS
    • yoasif_ 14y ago
      I think we have different notions of what "network install" means. Yes, you can download packages from the web during the install (perhaps booting from a minimal install, as most net work installs do). I was really more interested in netboot installs, where the machine downloads a boot image (via TFTP generally) and does the install from there. In fact, no hard drive is needed in the machine if you want to just boot an image from a network share. Apple uses a technology like this to reimage boot drives: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NetBoot https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NetBoot This is how it works in Ubuntu: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/DisklessUbuntuHowto https://help.ubuntu.com/community/DisklessUbuntuHowto