CentOS 5 (Final) has been released

[Dimitri Yioulos]

On Friday 13 April 2007 4:53 pm, you wrote:
> > > > As an experiment I burned a CD from the 5.2 ISO and tried
> >
> > to run the
> >
> > > > install with the CentOS 5 distro.  The Dell installer
> >
> > doesn't like the
> >
> > > > non-redhat CDs.  Is there any way to tell it that those
> >
> > are EL5 disks?
> >
> >
> > I don't think my first post in reply made it to the list, so
> > my second didn't
> > make any sense.  So, I'm re-posting (with apologies for the clutter):
> >
> > In the past, I've added "Taroon" to /etc/redhat-releases.
> > "Taroon" was the
> > codename for RHEL3.  "Nahant" is the codename for RHEL4, and
> > "Tikanga" is the
> > name for RHEL5.
>
> So I would need to mount the CentOS 5 Disc 1 ISO on the loopback
> filesystem, make that change and then burn a new CD to get the Dell ISM
> to use them?

I may be more of a hinderance than a help, at this point.  A little 
clarification - make the addition to /etc/redhat-release on your currently 
installed CentOS 5.  No need to make any changes on the CentOS install CD.  
Then, install OMSA.

Dimitri

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