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 minima

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