[CentOS-devel] Help with LiveCD for 6.0

[Les Mikesell]

On 5/24/2011 12:03 PM, Patrice Guay wrote:
>> On 05/24/2011 02:23 AM, Jerry Amundson wrote:
>>>> http://qaweb.dev.centos.org/qa/node/65
>>> I can/will help. What is needed?
>>
>> * C6-liveDVD as a desktop environ
>>
>> * C6-liveCD as a trimmed down desktop, focus on system tools, trim docs
>> and other excess stuff ( I guess, use the c5 livecd script for hints)
>>
>> * C6-RescueLiveCD with system tools [1]
>>
>> And have one of those per arch
>>
>
> Please don't forget that there is an "install to hard drive" functionality
> now. Trimming the C6-liveCD will result in a CentOS distro with missing
> stuff compared to a standard installation. Trimming the C6 LiveCD as it
> was done for C5 is a bad idea.

"Missing stuff" is not a big problem if you can get to the point where 
yum works.  I'd love to see an absolutely minimal CD/USB with just the 
filesystem and raid tools you might need to prepare a disk/raid set and 
then do an install to the point where the network and yum works.  If you 
are concerned about matching what the DVD install contains you could 
include scripts with the package lists to pull in later.

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   Les Mikesell
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