At 12:32 PM 12/3/2011, you wrote:
Have you thought about installing it from the network? Just burn a net install.iso, boot off from there, and at the network install prompt, enter path one of the mirrors.
After that, you are set.
On Dec 3, 2011, at 3:20 PM, Beartooth wrote:
I haven't managed to get hold of any DVD-R media, and the machineI particularly want to install on seems not to be able to see double- sided (which I do have). (It's not exactly a new PC.)
So I can't get 6.0 onto it in the usual way. But I can wait till6.1 comes out; it is possible to predict yet whether it will squeeze in under the DVD+R limit?
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With 6.0, I had to use the Net-Install. Unfortunately, I had to do it about 5 times because of errors I made, plus problems that existed between ZFS and Centos. Each time I did it, I waited the needed hours for each download. Fortunately, my ISP doesn't limit by transfer quantity (unlike ATT and Comcast), so I got it completed.
I might suggest that the packaging struggle to fit into both a DVD+R and DVD-R, by reducing the number of packages included in the DVD. For a starter, it might be possible to save some space (but only one of you experts might know if it's enough) by separating the language support and creating two "flavors" -- one with the non-Asian languages, and one with the Asian languages plus the "primary" European languages (English, French, German and a few others).
Alternately, by packaging it on two DVDs (the way we used to do it with multiple CD's).
David