[CentOS-announce] Re: CentOS 5 i386 Live CD

Johnny Hughes johnny at centos.org
Wed Jul 11 07:02:35 UTC 2007


I forgot to add that the password for root and centos is:

12qwaszx

Thanks,
Johnny Hughes

Johnny Hughes wrote:
> The CentOS Development team is pleased to announce the availability of
> the CentOS 5 i386 Live CD.
> 
> This CD is based on our CentOS-5.0 i386 distribution.
> 
> It can be used as a Workstation, with the following software:
> 
> OpenOffice.org 2.0.4
> Firefox 1.5.0.10
> Thunderbird 1.5.0.10
> Gaim-2.0.0
> Scribus-1.3.3
> xchat-2.6.6
> k3b-0.12.17
> Gimp-2.2.13
> 
> It can also be used as a rescue CD with the following tools:
> 
> 1. Full set of LVM and RAID command line tools
> 2. QTParted
> 3. Nmap and NMapFE
> 4. Graphical Traceroute
> 5. samba-3.0.23c with cifs kernel support to connect to Windows file shares
> 6. System Log Viewer
> 7. GUI Hardware Device Manager
> 
> ================================================================
> 
> The CentOS 5 i386 Live CD is based on the ADIOS Live CD Project:
> 
> http://os.cqu.edu.au/adios/adk.html
> 
> ================================================================
> 
> This CD has a non writable /usr directory, which means it is not able to
> have software installed on it after boot up.  The CentOS team is working
> hard to create a Live CD for CentOS 5 that is based on the Fedora Live
> CD Project (that is writable in all directories and even able to be used
> for installs) ... unfortunately we were not able to get this working
> with CentOS 5 for this release.  We hope to get that Live CD working by
> the release of CentOS 5.1.
> 
> That means that the purposes of this CD are to see if CentOS will
> boot/work on your hardware, to test some of the features of CentOS as a
> workstation, and to use as a Rescue CD.  It does not contain all the
> features of the 7 CD CentOS 5 Distribution on one CD :)
> 
> ================================================================
> 
> The CentOS Project would like to thank Patrice Guay (
> http://www.nanotechnologies.qc.ca ) for the creation of this CD.
> Patrice did the Tao Linux live CDs in the past and graciously donated
> his time and effort to make this one too.
> 
> ================================================================
> 
> You can get the CentOS 5 i386 Live CD from the mirrors listed here:
> 
> http://isoredirect.centos.org/centos/5/isos/i386/
> 
> Filename: CentOS-5.0-i386-LiveCD.iso
> Size:     711890944
> MD5Sum:   67894bd2530c0063baa01ac2e93435b0
> SHA1Sum:  befbc2bbb7409b84e33a3c19980e48d91f08901b
> 
> ================================================================
> 
> Please see the CentOS specific release notes here:
> http://wiki.centos.org/Manuals/ReleaseNotes/CentOS5.0
> 
> detailed upstream release notes here:
> http://www.centos.org/docs/5/html/release-notes/as-x86/index.html
> 
> CentOS-5 Documentation is here:
> http://www.centos.org/docs/5/
> 
> ================================================================
> 
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> 
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> 
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> 
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> ================================================================
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> The CentOS Development Team
> 
> 
> 
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