[CentOS] rebuilding centos 2.1 isos

John Newbigin jnewbigin at ict.swin.edu.au
Thu Sep 28 00:31:08 UTC 2006


CentOS 2.1 no longer fits on 2 CDs.  Rebuilding will be a pain.

You are correct about the anaconda versions.  You should be able to 
build the source into a binary but I can send you my built copy if you want.

John (the CentOS-2 maintainer).

Aleksandar Milivojevic wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I'm attempting to rebuild CentOS 2.1 ISOs with the latest kernel (to  
> attempt installation on some newer hardware with SATA drives).
> 
> It seems that the original build environment used different version of  
> anaconda than shipped with CentOS 2.1 (7.2-77_ELAS vs 7.2.32AS).  I  
> found SRPM of 7.2.32AS, however I'm wondering if there is binary  
> package also?
> 
> BTW, any hints on the things that might be problematic with rebuilding  
> the ISOs with newer kernel are more than welcome ;-)
> 
> Thanks
> 


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John Newbigin
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Faculty of Information and Communication Technologies
Swinburne University of Technology
Melbourne, Australia
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