[CentOS] Re: Centos Livecd

[Scott Silva]

on 2/20/2008 2:47 PM Johnny Hughes spake the following:
> Scott Silva wrote:
>> on 2/20/2008 2:17 PM Johnny Hughes spake the following:
>>> Scott Silva wrote:
>>>> on 2/20/2008 12:59 PM Sergio Belkin spake the following:
>>>>> 2008/2/20, Johnny Hughes 
>>>>> <johnny-IFYaIzF+flcdnm+yROfE0A-XMD5yJDbdMReXY1tMh2IBg-XMD5yJDbdMSQIYZ4X/+iSw at public.gmane.orgrg>: 
>>>>>
>>>>>> 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.
>>>
>>> OR ... of course, get CD1 and do a minimal install and then use "yum 
>>> groupinstall" option to install the groups of items you want.
>>
>> If only the first cd had an install option like "linux minimal" 
>> instead of going into anaconda and de-selecting everything one by one. 
>> Or even a button to "un-select all".
> 
> I am pretty sure I tested it and the only thing one needs to do is to 
> unselect the macro group options.
> 
> (the only one of which that is selected by default is Gnome Desktop)
> 
> What you said is true of CentOS-5.0 CD1, but I don't think it is true of 
> CentOS-5.1 CD1.
OK. Time to fire up VMWare and play some more since I don't have any new 
hardware right now.


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