CentOS LiveCD 5.5

Posted Posted by Patrice Guay in CentOS LiveCD     Comments 2 comments
May
3

At the end of March 2010, Red Hat released RHEL 5.5. Since then, I’ve been working actively on the creation of the upcoming CentOS LiveCD 5.5. The most notable changes in this release are:

  • Persistence feature: with livecd-tools 014-7 and later, it is possible to create a LiveUSB media featuring a persistent overlay
  • OpenOffice.org 3.1.1: support for files created with Microsoft Office 2007 or Microsoft Office 2008 for Mac OS X (.docx, .xlsx, .pptx, etc)
  • Improved wireless network adapter drivers: better support for Intel Wireless devices
  • ext4 support: ext4 partitions of your system should now be detected automatically by the LiveCD


A size constraint of 700MB has been respected for both i386 and x86_64 iso images. Users who want to burn the LiveCD iso images to regular CD medias will be able to do so.

However, transferring the LiveCD iso image to a USB key is the preferred method. Boot time is significantly reduced on a USB key. Moreover, the persistence feature is only available for LiveUSB medias.

Customization

As usual, the CentOS LiveCD 5.5 can be customized in order to support additional features:

  • NTFS support
  • Additional packages
  • Additional services (httpd, mysql, bind, etc.)
  • Custom configurations
  • Localization
  • etc.

Contact

Patrice Guay, IT systems engineer
info@patriceguay.com

2 Comments to “CentOS LiveCD 5.5”

  • Thursday December 9, 2010 at 10:38 AM
    ethan says:

    When we use you livecd script to make a centos 5.5 installable LiveCD we got an error message:

    [...]
    Retrieving http://ftp.telus.net/pub/centos/5/updates/x86_64/repodata/filelists.sqlite.bz2 …OK
    anaconda-11.2.0.66-4.x86_64 from a-installer has depsolving problems
    –> Missing Dependency: libdhcp6client-0.10.so.0()(64bit) is needed by package anaconda-11.2.0.66-4.x86_64 (a-installer)
    anaconda-11.2.0.66-4.x86_64 from a-installer has depsolving problems
    –> Missing Dependency: libdhcp6client-0.10.so.0()(64bit) is needed by package anaconda-11.2.0.66-4.x86_64 (a-installer)
    ———————-

    How can we solve it?

  • Thursday December 9, 2010 at 05:28 PM
    Patrice Guay says:

    The packages required to enable the ability to install the OS contained on the LiveCD directly to the hard drive are unsupported. I made them several months ago for the CentOS 5.2 release and I did not update them afterwards.

    However, this feature will be included in the upcoming CentOS LiveCD 6.0 release. See my post about RHEL6 beta LiveCD. If you are able to wait until this release, you will have the ability to install directly from the LiveCD.

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