[Centos] different iso's

TrevorB trevorbatley at users.sourceforge.net
Sat Oct 23 01:04:09 UTC 2004


-----Forwarded Message-----
> From: Trevor Batley <trevor at batley.id.au>
> To: William Warren <hescominsoon at emmanuelcomputerconsulting.com>
> Cc: 'centos Linux' <centos at caosity.org>
> Subject: Re: [Centos] different iso's
> Date: Sat, 23 Oct 2004 10:40:54 +1000
> 
> On Sat, 2004-10-23 at 04:32, William Warren wrote:
> > network install is nice..but you still have to download that 4 
> > gigs..frankly for me i have better usage for 4 gigs and having it 
> > all on one dvd is much more convenient..:)
> > 
> Extract the 3 iso's to a common directory (which can be used for LAN
> install or as a YUM base directory) and change the 4th line of the
> .discinfo file to be 1,2,3
> 
> This tree can be burnt as a DVD now.
> 
> Trevor B
> PS. What I mean by extract the 3 iso's to a common directory is ectract
> iso 1, and then add all the files from the other 2 iso's into the
> appropriate directories (eg. RedHat/RPMS)
> 
> > Lee W wrote:
> > 
> > > Not a bad idea, but is there really any major benefit?
> > > 
> > > Surely the extra 4GB taken up by the DVD could be put to better use.  
> > > 
> > > If you want to find a method of installing without have to swap discs all
> > > the time, why not try a network install (I use my Windows Desktop machine
> > > running Apache, for any HTTP installs I do).  In this way you can also keep
> > > an up-to-date yum respository which you can also burn to DVD's yourself if
> > > you wish. Also (as I recently discovered) on disc 1 is an kernel and initrd
> > > that allows you to do a completely discless installation using PXE network
> > > boot, tried it last night and it works great.
> > > 
> > > Just my 2 pennies worth anyway.
> > > 
> > > Regards
> > > 
> > > Lee
> > > 
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: William Warren [mailto:hescominsoon at emmanuelcomputerconsulting.com] 
> > > Sent: 22 October 2004 18:22
> > > To: centos Linux
> > > Subject: [Centos] different iso's
> > > 
> > > 
> > > I am wondering if there are any plans to release a large dvd iso 
> > > of the centos distribution?  dvd burners are taking off and this 
> > > would be a good addition.  Instead of three cd iso's one big dvd iso.
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