I boot RH6.1 using bootnet.img. There doesn't seem to be an X installer for bootnet; well, I like the menu system better anyway. However, ftp install from our local ftp server fails miserably. The installer loads stage2.img and hdlist just fine (as I can see from ftpd logs), but when it should begin transferring the actual files, I get some nasty errors. If I use use FQDN of the ftp site (ourftp.xxx.fi): [irrelevant info cut off] ftplib.py line 117 in connect IOError: [Errno ftp error] (113, 'No route to host') And if I use the IP number of the site: [some stuff cut off] todo.py line 1442 db=rpm.opendb(1,self.instPath) rpm.error=Cannot open I have tried custom and pre-packaged installations. The computer has SMC Etherpower II and 3Com 905b NIC's, neither work. Removing the other physically did no good. After trying to install RH6.1 like 5-6 times, I used RH60's bootnet.img to install that from the same ftp server. It worked like a charm. The installer worked fine (although pretty slowly, considering it's a 100BaseTx network) on a similar box with Tulip and Intel EtherExpress Pro 100 NIC's.
The GUI installer is only available for NFS and CDROM installations, so that answers that question. As for the FTP problems which you are seeing, are you giving a trailing space on the path to the source files (i.e. "/mnt/test/cartman/i386/" instead of "/mnt/test/cartman/i386") We have reports that giving the trailing space can cause serious problems. Reopen this bug if you are still having problems.
I too have had this problem. Plus, once I finally did get the net install to complete "successfully" I was left with a system that would not boot completely. In one case, I did get it to boot, but there were all sorts of kernel version errors, and missing modules, etc.