The CentOS-4 ServerCD's have always been very popular since they allowed people to get a mostly mainstream server online from a 1 CD installer. And since they come with all the regular installer stuff included in the full CentOS-4 distro, all provisioning tools and methodologies still work out of the box.
However, I missed a few updates with 4.5 and 4.6 ServerCD's. Good news is that with 4.7 its back on track. Within the next few days we should have the 4.7 ServerCD i386 and x86_64 Released. Keep an eye on the centos-announce list ( http://lists.centos.org/ ) for exact details.
One thing that that is always worth keeping in mind - the x86_64 ServerCD is completely x86_64 only. It has no 32bit Compat packages at all. So if you need a clean x86_64 install, the ServerCD is a good place to start from. And since the yum repo's are setup to be identical to the normal distro, once the system is installed, yum will find all the packages you need.
- KB
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by Genís