CentOS LiveCD 5.1 Release Notes

Contents

Translations
Introduction
Packages and Applications
Known Issues
Network Install
Community Involvement
1. CentOS LiveCD project
2. Mailinglists and Forums
Thanks

1. Translations

Translations of these release notes are available for the following languages :

Brazilian Portuguese (Português do Brasil)
French (Français)
Japanese (日本語)
Romanian (Romana)
Spanish (Español)

2. Introduction

The CentOS Development team is pleased to announce the availability of the CentOS 5.1 i386 LiveCD. This LiveCD is based on our CentOS-5.1 i386 distribution.

You can get the CentOS 5 i386 Live CD from the CentOS mirrors: http://isoredirect.centos.org/centos/5/isos/i386/

Filename: CentOS-5.1-i386-LiveCD.iso
Size: 720766976
MD5Sum: 32de2ac951b3f50144d833241eaf0100
SHA1Sum: 0912d455d0192fe3823bcb17795d2e0186a47d43

We used the tools from the Fedora livecd-tools project to create the CentOS 5.1 LiveCD image. This toolset offers numerous advantages:

all directories are now writable
a simpler LiveCD creation process
easily transfer the LiveCD image to a USB drive

3. Packages and Applications

The LiveCD can be used as a Workstation, with the following software:

openoffice.org 2.0.4
firefox 1.5.0.12
thunderbird 1.5.0.12
pidgin 2.0.2
scribus 1.3.3.2
xchat 2.6.6
k3b 0.12.17
gimp 2.2.13

It can also be used as a rescue CD with the following tools:

memtest86+-1.65
Full set of LVM and RAID command line tools
QTParted
Nmap and NMapFE
traceroute
samba-3.0.25b with cifs kernel support to connect to Windows file shares
System Log Viewer
GUI Hardware Device Manager

4. Known Issues

The LiveCD will not boot successfully on a SATA CD-ROM drive
The boot option called Boot from local drive may not work on your system.
For a LiveCD on a USB drive, only the default boot option is working properly.
At boot time, the following harmless error messages may be displayed:
- memory for crash kernel (0x0 to 0x0) not within permissible range
- udevd[xxx]: add_to rules: unknown key 'ATTRS{media}'
The login screen displays an incorrect string: User centos will login in 10 secondscentos. This is a known bug (bug #1996)
Resuming after entering suspend mode may leave you system in an unstable state.

5. Network Install

There is a "Network Install" option on the Live CD that is the same as our CentOS-5.1-i386-netinstall ISO. This option allows you to perform an FTP, HTTP, CD, Hard Drive or NFS install per these instructions:

http://www.centos.org/docs/5/html/5.1/Installation_Guide/s1-installmethod.html

(CD, NFS or Hard Drive installs require that you have downloaded the full CentOS tree or ISOs and taken the prerequisite steps to perform these installs per the above instructions, if you only have the LiveCD then you are NOT interested in these options)

If you desire to do a remote HTTP or FTP install from the Internet using the LiveCD, you can pick a mirror that is close to you from these public mirrors:

http://www.centos.org/modules/tinycontent/index.php?id=13

You can then find the path on that mirror to the "5/i386/os" directory and use the paths for install. For example, if I wanted to choose the mirror provided by "Linux Kernel Archives", I would click on the HTTP link for that mirror on the mirror's page:

http://mirrors.kernel.org/centos/

I would then click 5 -> i386 -> os ... the full path for this mirror would be:

http://mirrors.kernel.org/centos/5/os/i386/

In the HTTP installation, I would use these paths based on the above mirror:

Server: mirrors.kernel.org
Path:   centos/5/os/i386

If I had chosen the "Argonne National Laboratory" server, the path opened by browsing would be:

http://mirror.anl.gov/pub/centos/5/os/i386/

and the information you would enter on the HTTP install is:

Server: mirror.anl.gov
Path:   pub/centos/5/os/i386

Other install locations are available by selecting a mirror close to you.

6. Community Involvement

As a CentOS user there are various ways you can help out with the CentOS community.

6.1. CentOS LiveCD project

The CentOS LiveCD project is where the development of the CentOS LiveCD takes place. Various topics are covered:

Getting the LiveCD creation toolset
Creating a LiveCD image
Transfering a LiveCD image to a Flash drive
Customizing your own LiveCD

6.2. Mailinglists and Forums

Another way you can help out others in the community is by joining one of the mailinglists or forums and actively resolve user problems and discuss solutions with others.

7. Thanks

We thank everyone involved for helping us produce this product.