Hi.
I was wanting to set up a centos 6 virtual machine using the netinst iso image. I've done this for Centos 5 before but I was surprised to see that the size of the netinst iso had gone from +/- 10Mb to 227Mb. I was therefore wondering if I had the right file? If so, why did it get 22x bigger then the previous version?
Regards,
Johan
From: Johan Jonkers johan@is-a-nut.net
I was wanting to set up a centos 6 virtual machine using the netinst iso image. I've done this for Centos 5 before but I was surprised to see that the size of the netinst iso had gone from +/- 10Mb to 227Mb. I was therefore wondering if I had the right file? If so, why did it get 22x bigger then the previous version?
If you actually look inside the ISO files...
5.8: 14M isolinux
6.2: 34M isolinux 360K images/efiboot.img 34M images/efidisk.img 130M images/install.img 34M images/pxeboot
JD
On 07/03/2012 10:14 AM, Johan Jonkers wrote:
Hi.
I was wanting to set up a centos 6 virtual machine using the netinst iso image. I've done this for Centos 5 before but I was surprised to see that the size of the netinst iso had gone from +/- 10Mb to 227Mb. I was therefore wondering if I had the right file? If so, why did it get 22x bigger then the previous version?
The difference ist that the second installer stage has been included in the iso. As a result you only need this iso to boot into rescue mode. With the old Centos 5 iso you could boot it but in order to do anything you had to first have to connect to a mirror to get the second installer stage.
Regards, Dennis
On 07/03/2012 03:14 AM, Johan Jonkers wrote:
Hi.
I was wanting to set up a centos 6 virtual machine using the netinst iso image. I've done this for Centos 5 before but I was surprised to see that the size of the netinst iso had gone from +/- 10Mb to 227Mb. I was therefore wondering if I had the right file? If so, why did it get 22x bigger then the previous version?
Also, when comparing MAJOR versions of CentOS (that is 5.x to 6.x) please remember that there is a fairly major time difference between these releases when compared to other non-enterprise Linux versions. Doing 5.x to 6.x is like comparing Fedora 6 to Fedora 12. That is a fairly big jump in technology.
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