Thanks. That's what I was looking for, I will try the netinstall iso.

On 9/3/08, Paul Rushing prushing@gmail.com wrote:

On Wed, Sep 3, 2008 at 4:36 PM, chuck chuck.antrim@gmail.com wrote:

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Can I use the - CentOS-5.2-i386-netinstall.iso or CentOS-5.2-i386-LiveCD.iso ? Or all of the ISO's?

If you have network access and a supported NIC, the netinstall.iso will work. I'd want local access to a repository though. Otherwise your install is going to be rather slow. I've read that you can't install from the livecd, never tried it myself.

also http://wiki.centos.org/FAQ/CentOS5 refers to being able to do a minimal install with only the 1st cd. _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Florin Andrei a écrit :

Often I just use the first CD (out of the regular set of install CDs).

http://mirror.its.uidaho.edu/pub/centos/5.2/isos/i386/CentOS-5.2-i386-bin-1o...

Choose "customize package groups" (or whatever is the name of that option) and then unselect all package groups except Base.

This will give you a relatively "minimal" system. If you want to install anything after that, just do a "yum install".

That's one of the very few drawbacks from CentOS, compared to other distros. If you're a non-english user, you have to use either a DVD or the set of CDs. When I install either a server or a desktop, I always start out from a minimal system (that is, everything unchecked except 'Base').

CentOS 5.1 needed CDs 1, 4 and 5 to do a minimal install. With CentOS 5.2, CDs 1, 3 and 4 are needed. Two extra CDs to install a total amount of three localization packages. And there seems to be no way to abort the install after CD1 and then fetch the remaining packages (which ones?) from the internet.

But then, as german writer Kurt Tucholsky said (referring to a beautiful woman): she only lacked a flaw to be perfect.

:o)

Niki