Johnny Hughes wrote:
On Fri, 2006-09-15 at 10:30 -0400, Charlie Brady wrote:
On Fri, 15 Sep 2006, Karanbir Singh wrote:
Shriramana Sharma wrote:
Single CD installs will go a long way to popularize CentOS, IMHO.
There already is a Single CD installer, with a default Server Mode selection, but nothing stops you from doing a minimal install and then yum groupinstall 'GNOME Desktop'
Lack of readily available bandwidth might. Try it over 14.4k dialup if you have doubts.
There are any number of ISO sellers for people to purchase ISOs from for situations like that.
It is not possible to provide all the content on the liveCD on a single anaconda installable CD. (The liveCD is nearly 2GB in size and made smaller by squashfs/unionfs.
Most of the files (rpms) are already compressed, so space for those shouldn't be an issue. Running the rest through mkzftree and then using mkisofs -z should attend to the rest. Then it's just an issue of package selection:-)
Be aware, though, that the resultant CD could only be read sensibly on Linux; Mac OS, Windows & the rest won't be able to display file contents correctly.