[CentOS] size of netinst iso

John Doe jdmls at yahoo.com
Tue Jul 3 11:43:52 UTC 2012


From: Johan Jonkers <johan at is-a-nut.net>
>I was wanting to set up a centos 6 virtual machine using the netinst iso
>image. I've done this for Centos 5 before but I was surprised to see
>that the size of the netinst iso had gone from +/- 10Mb to 227Mb. I was
>therefore wondering if I had the right file? If so, why did it get 22x
>bigger then the previous version?

If you actually look inside the ISO files...

5.8:
14M     isolinux

6.2:
34M     isolinux
360K    images/efiboot.img
34M     images/efidisk.img
130M    images/install.img
34M     images/pxeboot

JD



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