I am wondering if there are any plans to release a large dvd iso of the centos distribution? dvd burners are taking off and this would be a good addition. Instead of three cd iso's one big dvd iso.
Not a bad idea, but is there really any major benefit?
Surely the extra 4GB taken up by the DVD could be put to better use.
If you want to find a method of installing without have to swap discs all the time, why not try a network install (I use my Windows Desktop machine running Apache, for any HTTP installs I do). In this way you can also keep an up-to-date yum respository which you can also burn to DVD's yourself if you wish. Also (as I recently discovered) on disc 1 is an kernel and initrd that allows you to do a completely discless installation using PXE network boot, tried it last night and it works great.
Just my 2 pennies worth anyway.
Regards
Lee
-----Original Message----- From: William Warren [mailto:hescominsoon@emmanuelcomputerconsulting.com] Sent: 22 October 2004 18:22 To: centos Linux Subject: [Centos] different iso's
I am wondering if there are any plans to release a large dvd iso of the centos distribution? dvd burners are taking off and this would be a good addition. Instead of three cd iso's one big dvd iso.
network install is nice..but you still have to download that 4 gigs..frankly for me i have better usage for 4 gigs and having it all on one dvd is much more convenient..:)
Lee W wrote:
Not a bad idea, but is there really any major benefit?
Surely the extra 4GB taken up by the DVD could be put to better use.
If you want to find a method of installing without have to swap discs all the time, why not try a network install (I use my Windows Desktop machine running Apache, for any HTTP installs I do). In this way you can also keep an up-to-date yum respository which you can also burn to DVD's yourself if you wish. Also (as I recently discovered) on disc 1 is an kernel and initrd that allows you to do a completely discless installation using PXE network boot, tried it last night and it works great.
Just my 2 pennies worth anyway.
Regards
Lee
-----Original Message----- From: William Warren [mailto:hescominsoon@emmanuelcomputerconsulting.com] Sent: 22 October 2004 18:22 To: centos Linux Subject: [Centos] different iso's
I am wondering if there are any plans to release a large dvd iso of the centos distribution? dvd burners are taking off and this would be a good addition. Instead of three cd iso's one big dvd iso.
On Fri, 22 Oct 2004, Lee W wrote:
Not a bad idea, but is there really any major benefit?
Surely the extra 4GB taken up by the DVD could be put to better use.
If you want to find a method of installing without have to swap discs all the time, why not try a network install (I use my Windows Desktop machine running Apache, for any HTTP installs I do). In this way you can also keep an up-to-date yum respository which you can also burn to DVD's yourself if you wish. Also (as I recently discovered) on disc 1 is an kernel and initrd that allows you to do a completely discless installation using PXE network boot, tried it last night and it works great.
If you're interested you could take a look at Yam. It allows to take advantage of the ISOs by building Yum/Apt repository directly off those ISOs. It also configures pxelinux for you, although some more improvements can be made to automate some more things.
In any case, I'm interested to have some feedback about Yam and CentOS and about improvements in general.
http://dag.wieers.com/home-made/yam/
Kind regards, -- dag wieers, dag@wieers.com, http://dag.wieers.com/ -- [Any errors in spelling, tact or fact are transmission errors]
Thanks dag,
Your post is excellent timing as I was considering asked such a question about if it was possible to integrate all the YUM/RPM updates into the installation tree therefore removing the requirement to run the installer then YUM sepearatly after the end of the installation or as part of the post-install script when using Kixstart.
Have I interpretted the description on your site correctly?
Regards
Lee
-----Original Message----- From: Dag Wieers [mailto:dag@wieers.com] Sent: 22 October 2004 21:51 To: Lee W Cc: 'centos Linux' Subject: RE: [Centos] different iso's
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If you're interested you could take a look at Yam. It allows to take advantage of the ISOs by building Yum/Apt repository directly off those ISOs. It also configures pxelinux for you, although some more improvements can be made to automate some more things.
In any case, I'm interested to have some feedback about Yam and CentOS and about improvements in general.
http://dag.wieers.com/home-made/yam/
Kind regards, -- dag wieers, dag@wieers.com, http://dag.wieers.com/ -- [Any errors in spelling, tact or fact are transmission errors]
On Fri, 22 Oct 2004, Lee W wrote:
Thanks dag,
Your post is excellent timing as I was considering asked such a question about if it was possible to integrate all the YUM/RPM updates into the installation tree therefore removing the requirement to run the installer then YUM sepearatly after the end of the installation or as part of the post-install script when using Kixstart.
Have I interpretted the description on your site correctly?
No, sadly it doesn't do that (yet), although it would be nice if it could. But of course that would require to symlink the whole ISO instead of installing directly from the mounted ISOs. It's not impossible, but I have to rethink this, it certainly fits the goals of the project, so I'mm adding it to the TODO list.
I would welcome such patches if you're interest to write it, but it should leave the option to allow how it is now.
-- dag wieers, dag@wieers.com, http://dag.wieers.com/ -- [Any errors in spelling, tact or fact are transmission errors]
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