[CentOS] Re: Centos Livecd

[Scott Silva]

on 2/20/2008 2:17 PM Johnny Hughes spake the following:
> Scott Silva wrote:
>> on 2/20/2008 12:59 PM Sergio Belkin spake the following:
>>> 2008/2/20, Johnny Hughes 
>>> <johnny-IFYaIzF+flcdnm+yROfE0A-XMD5yJDbdMReXY1tMh2IBg 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.

If only the first cd had an install option like "linux minimal" instead of 
going into anaconda and de-selecting everything one by one. Or even a button 
to "un-select all".


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