On 3/4/11 5:33 AM, Johnny Hughes wrote:
On 03/03/2011 11:44 PM, Jimmy Bradley wrote:
I do have one question about Cent OS 6.Sonetimes back, I remember reading that the plan was to spread the iso's over multiple cd's, rather than put it all on 1 dvd. Is that still the plan? As far as when it's released, I say take all the time you need. I'd rather have an os that works, than something that's just thrown together, and is about as stable as windows me, or vista.
That will depend upon how upstream wrote the item that splits the RPMs. The distros are getting so big now that it might not make sense to continue to create CDs ... CentOS 5.6 will have at least 8 (and maybe 9) CDs for x86_64. I would expect that number to grow for CentOS 6. In fact, we already had to split 5.5 x86_64 over 2 DVDs, and both arches for CentOS 6 will likely be 2 DVDs.
I always liked the way you could NFS-install from a directory containing the downloaded CD iso images but I could never get that to work with a dvd iso. Is there an equally easy way to install from a DVD image on a box without a DVD drive?
Yes, it's still possible, but needs a little bit more work. In the directory where the DVD ISO is, you have to create a directory called images and put the install.img file from the ISO there:
[someone@ftp x86_64]$ ll -R .: total 3953768 drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Nov 12 15:25 images -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 210 Nov 12 12:31 MD5SUMS -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 232761344 Oct 26 03:16 rhel-server-6.0-x86_64-boot.iso -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 3431618560 Oct 26 19:09 rhel-server-6.0-x86_64-dvd.iso -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 380297216 Nov 4 21:48 rhel-server-supplementary-6.0-x86_64-dvd.iso
./images: total 119780 -r--r--r-- 1 root root 122527744 Sep 23 00:04 install.img
Regards, Simon