On Mon, 15 Mar 2021 at 08:19, Robert Heller heller@deepsoft.com wrote:
At Sun, 14 Mar 2021 21:49:40 -0500 "Robert G. (Doc) Savage" < dsavage@peaknet.net>, CentOS mailing list centos@centos.org wrote:
On Sun, 2021-03-14 at 21:31 -0400, John Plemons wrote:
Sounds like you need to use a dual layer DVD disc, it is double the capacity.
John,
Wrong answer. The server's optical drive doesn't support double-layer disks. The CentOS developers made a mistake on their DVD iso, and they need to fix it.
Actually not -- the CentOS ISOs have not been meant for optical media since CentOS 6 -- they have been meant for thumb drives (>= 8G).
Exactly that. Upstream Fedora and RHEL went to require dual density around Fedora 18, RHEL-7 because the amount of data was too much. The CentOS developers have tried to their best to keep a single density working but there has been a constant race of problems with various 'important' packages having to be dropped from this ISO every time. For the final EL-7.x series, there were too many packages to do this with. The alternatives you have are:
1. Use CentOS-7.8 (or 7.7, or... ) as the boot media and then network update 2. Use CentOS-7.9 minimal and network update 3. Use CentOS-7.9 netiso and network install. 4. Use some mixture of the above with a USB disk of all the data and a kickstart to point to it so it gets there. 5. Look for a completely different alternative.
You are going to have to something different. Is it possible to do a network install on this machine. I believe the netboot ISO should be small enough to fit on a CD or DVD.
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