[CentOS] Re: Centos Livecd

Johnny Hughes johnny at centos.org
Wed Feb 20 22:17:13 UTC 2008


Scott Silva wrote:
> on 2/20/2008 12:59 PM Sergio Belkin spake the following:
>> 2008/2/20, Johnny Hughes 
>> <johnny-IFYaIzF+flcdnm+yROfE0A at public.gmane.org>:
>>> Milton Calnek wrote:
>>>  >
>>>  >
>>>  > Patrice Guay wrote:
>>>  >> Milton Calnek wrote:
>>>  >>> Johnny Hughes wrote:
>>>  >>>> Milton Calnek wrote:
>>>  >>
>>>  >> The anaconda package does not need to be present on your build 
>>> system.
>>>  >> It needs to be present on the LiveCD.
>>>  >
>>>  > That's where the hacked anaconda comes in... and any CD produced 
>>> is not
>>>  > an official version of CentOS.
>>>  >
>>>  > Becomes clear to me.
>>>  >
>>>
>>>
>>> Right,
>>>
>>>  And there are a couple other packages too (pykickstart, dosfstools and
>>>  syslinux) that are modified. For the most part the modified version
>>>  works just fine, but there are things about it that are not officially
>>>  supported.
>>>
>>>  It should be stated the the purpose of the live CD is NOT to install
>>>  centos (unless you want to, as a convenience use the Network install
>>>  provided on there, which is fully supported) ... but to use to test 
>>> your
>>>  hardware and to use as a recovery disc.
>>>
> 
>>
>> Thanks for all of your comments, really I was looking for an easy way
>> of install Centos downloading one only CD....
> 
> If you are only doing a system or two, you can down the live cd and do a 
> net install from a mirror close to you.

OR ... of course, get CD1 and do a minimal install and then use "yum 
groupinstall" option to install the groups of items you want.


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