[Leaplist] Fedora Live, not other Live CDs,
for Fedora (and RHEL/CentOS) -- WAS: Various ...
William A. Mahaffey III
wam at hiwaay.net
Fri May 16 11:00:17 EDT 2008
Bryan J. Smith wrote:
> PREFACE: Tempting fate, here goes ...
>
> I have warned and warned over the years, on and off-list, about this.
> I'm sure some will complain about me being adamant about this as well.
> But there have been enough posts that have skipped over this, I feel I
> must post on-list. Please do not start a meta-discussion on this, focus
> on my explicit, technical details if you disagree. Thanx in advance.
>
> EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
>
> If you are recovering a Fedora system, please use the Fedora Live CD,
> not another Live CD. For RHEL or CentOS, please create/usage their
> respective Live CDs, or a Fedora Live CD (ideally of the same generation
> -- e.g., Fedora Core 6 - Fedora 9 for RHEL/CentOS 5). Also do not use
> [G]parted on its own if you are certain LVM volumes exist.
>
On this note, I have looked around & am unable to locate a rescueCD for
CentOS 5.1 64-bit (not in the Newnan-Utilities mirror, at least), does
CentOS in fact supply rescueCD's ?
--
William A. Mahaffey III
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