Robert Heller wrote:
At Mon, 10 Aug 2009 16:37:42 -0400 CentOS mailing list centos@centos.org wrote:
Hi,
On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 15:26, Ron Blizzardrb4centos@gmail.com wrote:
If you've got limited access, the best way to install CentOS is probably to download the very small Netinstall ISO -- then do a network install. That way you save having to download all the updates right after installing.
Actually, as Johnny already said, you can use the LiveCD itself to do a netinstall. However, in that case, you will still download the packages from the Internet as they are installed.
On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 15:22, Bob Goodwinbobgoodwin@wildblue.net wrote:
Actually I only need a minimal install in that computer since I plan on using it as a file server.
In that case you might want to download only CD 1 of CentOS, since (AFAIR) it's possible to do a minimal install using that CD only. (Please someone else that has done that recently confirm that this is indeed still possible.)
Yes, it is, but there is also a 'Server Install CD', which might be better. Many of the 'server' (deamon) RPMs are NOT on CD 1 of the CD set (instead it has other, more desktop-ish RPMs).
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All I want is something that doesn't reach end of life so rapidly for this application. I should have checked more carefully.
I will try Scientific Linux which is supposed to install from the cd.
Thanks for the help.
Bob