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. -- MailScanner is like deodorant... You hope everybody uses it, and you notice quickly if they don't!!!! -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 250 bytes Desc: OpenPGP digital signature URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20080220/e0090d67/attachment-0005.sig>