Re: [CentOS] Anaconda allows x86_64 CD/DVD to be used to install i386 system

Aleksandar Milivojevic wrote:

Let say the tree on my install server looks like this:

/centos/os/i386 /centos/os/x86_64

If I use x86_64 media to boot, but by mistake in ks.cfg file I had something like:

url http://installsrv/centos/os/i386

Anaconda will happily install from i386 tree.

no it wont. try it, really.

at buildtime a timestamp and a session stamp are inserted into both ends of the side for a network install. unless they match - you cant install anything. you cant even use a boot.iso from a different build cycle against a different tree, even in the same arch...

so, umm.. how did you achieve this :)