Hi, I'm making a dedicated distribution based on CentOS 5.1 My doubt is about the installation of the "new" distro. I was thinking about a (K)ubuntu kind of way: the CD/DVD boots, a graphical interface appears with an "Install" button, just a click on it and then just wait to finish. Now, I'd like to avoid building RPMs for my added software. Is this possible this way ? Other suggestions are welcome. Any help would be appreciated. Warm Regards, M?rio Gamito
M?rio Gamito wrote:> Hi, > > I'm making a dedicated distribution based on CentOS 5.1 > > My doubt is about the installation of the "new" distro. > > I was thinking about a (K)ubuntu kind of way: the CD/DVD boots, a > graphical interface appears with an "Install" button, just a click on it > and then just wait to finish. > > Now, I'd like to avoid building RPMs for my added software. Is this > possible this way ? > > Other suggestions are welcome. > > Any help would be appreciated. > > Warm Regards, > M?rio Gamito > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > >Hi I would actually recommend that you do create your own RPMS. RPMS are the package management system that works best with CentOS. It can seem daunting at first but really isn't that hard once you have done it a couple of times. One other comment I will make is that depending on your needs Fedora may be a better choice as a lot of tools have come out that support creating your own distribution. In particular things like Revisor. Good luck
M?rio Gamito wrote:> Hi, > > I'm making a dedicated distribution based on CentOS 5.1Sounds good, but the usual question - why ?> I was thinking about a (K)ubuntu kind of way: the CD/DVD boots, a > graphical interface appears with an "Install" button, just a click on it > and then just wait to finish.That sounds like a good idea, and its easy to do as well. You dont need to change anything in the CentOS-5 distro in order to achieve that. Also not building everything from scratch means that things are easier for you to update.> Now, I'd like to avoid building RPMs for my added software. Is this > possible this way ?Thats a really bad idea. I would suggest you use something like slackware or lfs, if you dont want to use a package management system.> Other suggestions are welcome.well, what problem are you trying to solve ? Maybe I can help, if you share some more info. -- Karanbir Singh : http://www.karan.org/ : 2522219 at icq