On Thu, 18 Mar 2021 at 10:56, Lamar Owen lowen@pari.edu wrote:
On 3/18/21 10:23 AM, Stephen John Smoogen wrote:
[what can be done] I am guessing someone could make an unofficial set of spins which cut out some
packages to try and make it fit in single density.
This is probably the solution at this point for the 'Full' DVD. In the interim, older machines such as this should just use the 'Minimal' DVD, since it fits on single-layer nicely. (I hear or read single-density and think FM encoding, 128 bytes per sector, 77-track IBM 3740 format 8 inch floppies......which are still in use in certain places...) Same for 8.x or 8 Stream -- oh, wait, there is no 'Minimal' ISO, so net install or USB is it, can't use optical media at all.
https://mirrors.edge.kernel.org/centos/7/isos/x86_64/CentOS-7-x86_64-Minimal...
There is a 7.9 minimal. There was no 8 minimal because composing is harder and the 'minimum' set of packages did not shave off a lot of disk space.
You're right; we're rabbit-holing. Being at a non-profit, I have to rabbit hole a lot, since I tend to use much older hardware than 'normal.'
Understood. This is where the modern OS assumptions of 'you should be in the cloud' and/or the 'your hardware must be only this old to be used' cause a hard fork with parts of the community.
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