[CentOS] 5.5 ISO size vs RHEL

Kwan Lowe kwan.lowe at gmail.com
Wed May 19 16:09:35 UTC 2010


On Wed, May 19, 2010 at 10:46 AM, Anthony Caetano
<ant+centos.org at caetano.za.net> wrote:
> Hi
>
> We use CentOS and RHEL, the 5.5 RHEL ISO for x86_64 is 3.7GB (**), the CentOS one
> is 4602MB (***) split over two DVDs.  Is this reasonable and correct?  Any ideas
> why would there be such a discrepancy if they are built from the same (or very
> similar) source?

The upstream has different ISOs for different versions. Clustering,
for example, is split out.  The CentOS disks have them all in one ISO.
More bang for the buck...



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