[CentOS] Re: Centos Livecd

Scott Silva ssilva at sgvwater.com
Wed Feb 20 21:13:09 UTC 2008


on 2/20/2008 12:59 PM Sergio Belkin spake the following:
> 2008/2/20, Johnny Hughes <johnny-IFYaIzF+flcdnm+yROfE0A at public.gmane.org>:
>> Milton Calnek wrote:
>>  >
>>  >
>>  > Patrice Guay wrote:
>>  >> Milton Calnek wrote:
>>  >>> Johnny Hughes wrote:
>>  >>>> Milton Calnek wrote:
>>  >>
>>  >> The anaconda package does not need to be present on your build system.
>>  >> It needs to be present on the LiveCD.
>>  >
>>  > That's where the hacked anaconda comes in... and any CD produced is not
>>  > an official version of CentOS.
>>  >
>>  > Becomes clear to me.
>>  >
>>
>>
>> Right,
>>
>>  And there are a couple other packages too (pykickstart, dosfstools and
>>  syslinux) that are modified. For the most part the modified version
>>  works just fine, but there are things about it that are not officially
>>  supported.
>>
>>  It should be stated the the purpose of the live CD is NOT to install
>>  centos (unless you want to, as a convenience use the Network install
>>  provided on there, which is fully supported) ... but to use to test your
>>  hardware and to use as a recovery disc.
>>

> 
> Thanks for all of your comments, really I was looking for an easy way
> of install Centos downloading one only CD....

If you are only doing a system or two, you can down the live cd and do a net 
install from a mirror close to you.

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