The CentOS 5.2 i386 LiveCD was released by the CentOS Development team yesterday, as announced by Patrice Guay. The LiveCD is based on the CentOS-5.2 i386 distribution, and it also offers the possibility to perform a netinstall thanks to the “Network Install” option.

You can use the CentOS 5.2 LiveCD as a workstation, with the applications provided, such as OpenOffice.org 2.3.0, Firefox 3.0, Pidgin 2.3.1, Scribus 1.3.3.2, K3b 0.12.17, Gimp 2.2.13 and more.

The Live CD can be used as a rescue CD with these applications:
• memtest86+-1.65
• A complete set of LVM and RAID command line applications
• QTParted
• Nmap and NMapFE
• traceroute
• samba-3.0.28 with cifs kernel support to connect to Windows shares
• System Log Viewer
• GUI Hardware Device Manager

There are some known problems related to this LiveCD, including the fact that it cannot boot successfully from a SATA CD-ROM drive, and you will encounter some error messages you should ignore, such as:

memory for crash kernel (0×0 to 0×0) not within permissible range
udevd[xxx]: add_to rules: unknown key ‘ATTRS{media}’

About CentOS:
CentOS supports the same architectures as its ancestor, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, does: Intel x86- (32-bit), Intel IA-64 (Itanium 64-bit), x86-64 (64-bit, AMD’s AMD64 and Intel’s Intel 64), PowerPC/32 (Apple Macintosh PowerMac running the G3 or G4 PowerPC processor) (”beta” support), IBM Mainframe (eServer zSeries and S/390). Additionally, CentOS supports other two architectures not supported upstream: Alpha and SPARC (”beta” support). CentOS’ preferred software updating tool is based on yum, although support for use of an up2date variant exists.

[Download]
http://rapidshare.com/files/130716410/CentOS-5.2-i386-LiveCD.001
http://rapidshare.com/files/130715892/CentOS-5.2-i386-LiveCD.002
http://rapidshare.com/files/130715807/CentOS-5.2-i386-LiveCD.003
http://rapidshare.com/files/130715832/CentOS-5.2-i386-LiveCD.004
http://rapidshare.com/files/130715850/CentOS-5.2-i386-LiveCD.005
http://rapidshare.com/files/130716441/CentOS-5.2-i386-LiveCD.006
http://rapidshare.com/files/130715876/CentOS-5.2-i386-LiveCD.007
http://rapidshare.com/files/130715378/CentOS-5.2-i386-LiveCD.008

[SHA]
http://ftp.osuosl.org/pub/centos/5.2/isos/i386/sha1sum.livecd

After downloading use HJSplite to marge files.