[CentOS] About download ISO image, again

[Matt Hyclak]

On Wed, Nov 15, 2006 at 11:47:18AM +0800, Stephen Liu enlightened us:
> It comes to my notice that there is an server version -
> CentOS-4.4.ServerCD-x86_64.iso
> http://mirror.myriadnetwork.com/centos/4.4/isos/x86_64/
> 
> I'm going to run CentOS as server.  What packages are included there?  
> 
> Is X packages included as well which should not be on a server creating
> a risk hole.  However on another hand it will be convenient for me at
> the early stage of installation to search documents on Internet.  Just
> retain X not started at boot and remove all their packages after
> installation finished.  I don't expect connecting a workstation to the
> server to do this job at the beginning.
> 
> Advice would be appreciated.  TIA
> 

The Server CD is simply a subset of the entire CentOS distribution designed
to fit on one CD. Once installed, the entire distribution is available via
yum. It's a convenient single CD version of the distro, especially for those
instances where DVD and/or multiple CDs are undesirable.

Matt

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