Mário Gamito wrote: > Hi, > > I'm making a dedicated distribution based on CentOS 5.1 Sounds good, but the usual question - why ? > I was thinking about a (K)ubuntu kind of way: the CD/DVD boots, a > graphical interface appears with an "Install" button, just a click on it > and then just wait to finish. That sounds like a good idea, and its easy to do as well. You dont need to change anything in the CentOS-5 distro in order to achieve that. Also not building everything from scratch means that things are easier for you to update. > Now, I'd like to avoid building RPMs for my added software. Is this > possible this way ? Thats a really bad idea. I would suggest you use something like slackware or lfs, if you dont want to use a package management system. > Other suggestions are welcome. well, what problem are you trying to solve ? Maybe I can help, if you share some more info. -- Karanbir Singh : http://www.karan.org/ : 2522219 at icq