Marvin Jones composed on 2016-07-29 07:44 (UTC-0600): Technically no, but as a practical matter yes. All my machines are multiboot, so I download only the installation kernel and initrd that those isos contain, then load them with Grub. From there on it's essentially the same road as using such a CD. Doing it my way I find it easier to provide specific installation options that I might or might not remember that I want to use. e.g.: vga=791 -- hw-detect/start_pcmcia=false netcfg/disable_dhcp=true expert biosdevname=0 ipv6.disable=1 net.ifnames=0 tasks="standard" base-installer/install-recommends=false video=1024x768@60 hostname=myhost AFAICT, you can avoid _everything_ related to or depending on Xorg, and a lot more. Broke house A/C kept me busy off puter until a short time ago.