nate wrote:
But what's the point, when the installer knows how to deal with images directly and if you want a package later you'll probably let yum get a current version from the repositories anyway?
Actually I almost never use yum. Thought about it on occasion, RPMS are installed via cfengine so I can ensure all of the versions are the same on all systems.
I've never had any particular problem with this, but I usually start with disk image copies of an initial setup, followed by subsequent yum updates. I haven't had any surprises from the Centos repositories.