[clue] CentOS new user experience.

[Romero, Gary]

> So I go to centos.org [1] and click the friendly Get CentOS Now button. 
>  That tells me i can get the DVD
> ISO, Everything ISO, or Minimal ISO.  Where does it tell me what the 
> difference is?  Not the FAQ or
> anything else I could find.  Pity.

> I can't click on one of the friendly buttons (DVD ISO seems likely, 
> since it's first).  That just
> tells me I can't download .iso files directly.

Yeah, this was silly hard to find (seriously, it took me a while since 
its really buried on a busy page): https://wiki.centos.org/Download

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"VARIETY OF ISO IMAGES

Aside from the normal DVD and CD ISO images, the CentOS project 
occasionally releases special ISO images. Not all point releases get 
fresh spins of what is substantially unchanging content; if the LATEST 
AND GREATEST refresh point spin does not have what you seek, you may 
wish to use the last version seen for a LiveCD or ServerCD, and as 
appropriate run updates in a post-install process:

  	* LiveCD - Bootable CD image with a working environment directly from 
CD
  	* ServerCD - Installable CD image with a limited package-set for 
server installations
	* netinstall - Minimal CD image to start network installations (<10M)

The netinstall iso will only work with the corresponding point release, 
eg one cannot use the netinstall from CentOS Linux 6.2 to install CentOS 
Linux 6.3. "

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Even with this, it's still not really clear but...

LiveCD = Bootable ISO
ServerCD = Everything ISO
netinstall = Minimal ISO

It used to be that the DVD ISO button took you directly to the mirrors 
list where you could actually download the full ISO's. During a talk in 
Fort Lauderdale a while back, a RHEL sales rep mentioned that RH had not 
figured out exactly what they were going to do with CentOS other than to 
keep paying the devs to build it in the short term. Based on the state 
of the website, I'd guess that statement still stands.

-Gar