CentOS - Jan 2005 - CentOS 3.4 - i386 - Single CD Server version release,

For Release:  January 21, 2005

The CentOS Team is pleased to announce the official release of a new
single CD Server version of CentOS 3.4 for i386.

This single CD iso should be ideal for use in datacentres for installing
servers and it has also been designed for covermount magazine use.

This version includes all of the packages that can be chosen to be
installed during a 'Server' install.

Once installed yum can be used to install additional packages from
mirrors and yum groupinstall can be used to install additional package
groups.

This release includes all relevant RHEL 3 updates (for U4) and errata up
to January 20th, 2005.  

A new ISO image is available from mirrors and is also available via
BitTorrent.


Downloading -- Bittorrent
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The bittorent for the CD is found at :-

http://mirror.caosity.org/centos/3.4/isos/i386/CentOS-3.4-i386-Server.iso.torrent

Please use bittorrent and keep your downloader running for others to use
even after the download completes.

If you need to install bittorrent for CentOS, rpms are available from
Dag's repository. 

http://dag.wieers.com/packages/bittorrent/bittorrent-3.4.2-1.1.el3.rf.noarch.rpm

An earlier version of bittorrent is also available in the CentOS 3.3
<contrib> repo - which may be installed using 'yum install
bittorrent' -
a gui version is also available - 'yum install bittorrent-gui'

Then execute btdownloadcurses.py <url to .torrent file> in a shell. (or
btdownloadgui.py for the gui)   You may need to open ports 6881-6889 and
6969 if you have tight firewall restrictions.

The .torrent files are also available on all caosity mirrors.

Once again - please leave your downloader running after the download is
complete (with ports 6881-6889 open) as your downloader will become part
of the peer to peer bittorrent network and reduce the load on our mirror
servers.

Further information on bittorrent is available at http://bittorrent.com


Downloading -- .iso images
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iso images are available from your favorite CentOS mirror and will be
found at :-

/centos/3.4/isos/i386/CentOS-3.4-i386-Server.iso

A current list of mirrors can be obtained from
http://www.centos.org/mirrors

Purchasing
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isos are available to purchse from www.cheeplinux.com (UK) and should
also be available from a number of other online vendors.

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Please add any errors or bugs you encounter to buzilla on
http://www.centos.org/bugs

Enjoy,

The CentOS Team

Lance Davis
CentOS 3 i386 Release Manager








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Hi Lance,

Lance Davis wrote:
> For Release:  January 21, 2005
> 
> The CentOS Team is pleased to announce the official release of a new
> single CD Server version of CentOS 3.4 for i386.
Firstly, this 1-disk variant distro is a great idea! I am sure its going 
to be a hit with everyone setting up servers based on Centos. Well done!

Secondly, while this disk is based on the Centos 3.4 Tree, is it 
possible to put the .iso somewhere other than in the same directory as 
the regular i386 Centos 3.4 iso's ?

 From what it looks like, most people seem to think its an alternate 
disk1 for the install. ( As the number of people wandering into #centos 
asking about this would indicate ).

Have a good holiday!

- K

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