[CentOS] Re: Centos Livecd

Wed Feb 20 22:47:32 UTC 2008
Johnny Hughes <johnny at centos.org>

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 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.
>>
>> 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.

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