[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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