[CentOS] About download ISO image, again

Stephen Liu satimis at yahoo.com
Wed Nov 15 05:36:28 UTC 2006


Hi Matt,

> 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.

Noted with tks


B.R.
Stephen



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