greg haygood

To go along with the previous post about building a custom install CD, I wanted to create a custom splash screen with the product's logo instead of the one from CentOS. The syslinux/isolinux mechanism requires it own format, but it's still really easy to accomplish:

Unless you're going to use a specific VGA resolution on boot, you'll need an image 640 pixels wide, and up to 480 pixels tall. 480 will fill the screen, but in order to display instructions/help underneath, you'll want less.

I needed a custom install disc for CentOS 5 in order to bundle some additional RPMs. Revisor has the promise, but it remains unstable and mostly unusable many months after I first gave it a shot. So until they knock out those issues, here are the instructions for rolling your own. I couldn't find anything specific to C5, so based this loosely on some CentoS 4.1 instructions.

The Plone installers for Windows don't bundle the cool TextIndexNG3 fulltext search add-on. To enable it, you need to compile the C extension module that comes with it. There's an older binary version available, but it's expecting Python 2.3, not the 2.4.4 that comes with the bundle.