CentOS 8 Hardware Compatibility Testing
With CentOS 7 I’ve used the Live Image in stores like Staples to test (mostly) laptops for compatibility simply by booting the computer off of a flash drive and getting the desktop up and trying stuff out (sound, networking, touchpad, etc.) If it doesn’t work, shut down, remove the flash drive and nothing has changed on the laptop that I just tested.
Since there is no Live Image for CentOS 8 (that I can find, anyway) what’s the recommended procedure for doing this sort of compatibility testing? Maybe a Fedora live image? If so, which one?
CentOS 8 Hardware Compatibility Testing?
With CentOS 7 and earlier I’ve been using the Live CD image to test new hardware (laptops etc) for compatibility. That way I can get a desktop up and try the sound and the networking and whatnot without affecting what is already installed on the machine, and then if everything looks good I can just run the installer right from the Live CD image.
There’s no Live CD image for CentOS 8, so what would be a good way to accomplish the task of testing new hardware with CentOS 8 before attempting to install the operating system?
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Live CD is planed but not yet produced. Until it is, I think you can add USB and install test CentOS 8 using only that USB as disk (uncheck all other disks). Some RAID drivers (including JBOD/fakeraid) are missing (RHEL removed them because of stability issues), MATE is not yet available from regular EPEL but there is private Fedora COPR repository for it, and for any hardware missing drivers most likely you can get them from ElRepo repository. Search archives of this mailing list or visit Official CentOS Facebook group for details.