[CentOS] Creating an alternitive install CD for CentOS 5.2 (w/ patched mkinitrd)
Rob Kampen
rkampen at kampensonline.com
Sat Mar 7 23:44:46 UTC 2009
Robert Heller wrote:
> At Sat, 07 Mar 2009 11:59:02 -0600 CentOS mailing list <centos at centos.org> wrote:
>
>
>> R P Herrold wrote:
>>
>>> Here is the fallout: The poor end user 'knows' it was CentOS,
>>> because she was told by the respinner that it is 'CentOS with
>>> just one package replaced'. Who gets the black eye here?
>>> Who bears the support load of sorting out what happened when
>>> the poor hurt user shows up in what she thinks is the correct
>>> support venue, barely able to describe her VOIP turnkey box's
>>> operation?
>>>
>>> The answer is, of course, the main mother-ship CentOS project
>>> folks.
>>>
>>> And it is not right that people do this to us, but it is also
>>> hard to stop. Probably the only real solution is to enforce
>>> the CentOS trademark on the art and brand packages, and
>>> prohibit respins containing such (just as the upstream does).
>>>
>>> Sad, but true.
>>>
>>> There is a reason the core CentOS group are skittish about
>>> respins. We'll have to discuss this seriously.
>>>
>> I can see your point about the brand value you have embedded into the
>> packages, but it also seems wrong to make everyone who wants to improve
>> it or adapt to some additional purpose repeat all the rebranding work
>> from scratch.
>>
>
> Or deal with a 'show stopping bug', like the known problem with
> mkinitrd. I have no interest in rebranding anything or even
> redistributing my 'replacement' CD (I'll probably toss the replacement
> CD once I get the install done). I just want to install CentOS on a
> system with pre-existing software RAID disks -- I am migrating a server
> from Ubuntu to CentOS 5 and I don't want to lose prexisting data, so
> simply wiping the disks and installing on bare partitions is not an
> option (and even then I'd want to use LVM for some things, and even
> without RAID, LVM will also send mkinitrd off into never, never land --
> basically anything the fires up /dev/mapper/... will do it: RAID, LVM,
> cryptfs, all seem to do this).
>
>
>> How hard would it be to generate an 'unbranded' drop in replacement
>> package for everything specifically Centos - or a framework so others
>> could share the work? That way everyone who needed to replace a driver
>> wouldn't have to repeat all this work unless they wanted to create their
>> own unique brand identity.
>>
>> If you think respins containing Centos branding are wrong, make it easy
>> to to the right thing.
>>
>>
>
>
tried nodmraid on the kernel boot line?
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