[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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