On 25 November 2015 at 13:48, Conley, Matthew M CTR GXM <matthew.m.conley1.ctr@navy.mil> wrote:
Ironically, I work in an environment, where a usb stick is forbidden, but that said, I usually try to use the liveDVD's. I only have one system that has only a cd drive (no dvd), but the older releases support it just fine. So that's cool.


Idem.

I've seen and worked in places where pendrives (or any removable media) are forbidden, due to some policy on their datacenters.

Personally I prefer DVD iso, but let's take in count that CentOS is a nice and solid 
alternative for production servers, it is very used on small companies that run commodity hardware (at least in my country happens), and CDs are still a media option.



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Fabian,

I think the browser is the one component you must not remove from the Live "CD".
I agree with Manuel, just take as much space as is needed to do a reasonable job and make sure dd-ing to USB stick works. Don't publish handicaped ISOs. :)

Most people's machines nowadays hardly even have a DVD reader, let alone a CD one; e.g the last laptop I bought (2 years ago) came without such optical unit.

Lucian

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> From: "Fabian Arrotin" <arrfab@centos.org>
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> Subject: [CentOS-devel] CentOS 7 liveCD survey

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> Hi,
>
> While working on the next 7.1511 Live media, I discovered that the
> size for the actual CentOS 7 LiveCD would be more than 700MB.
>
> It's due to some packages being now bigger and bigger, also due to the
> big Gnome 3.8 -> 3.14 rebase.
> One obvious package I can remove from the packages manifest (which
> itself is consuming more and more space) is Firefox.
>
> If I remove it from the packages manifest (only for LiveCD, it will
> obviously stay for the LiveGnome and LiveKDE DVD iso images), it's
> then back to 650 MB, so that would mean that one would still be able
> to burn it on a CD.
>
> But the real question is then : does that even make sense ? for each
> release, we're now fighting with disk space constraints, and I'm each
> time removing packages from that LiveCD image. If we remove Firefox
> itself, that would mean that such LiveCD would be useful just for
> people willing to "test" CentOS on their hardware, but that would be a
> basic Gnome desktop.
>
> It builds/runs fine, can be installed too (like before), but I'd like
> your opinion about this.
>
> Cheers,
>
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