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From: Trevor Batley trevor@batley.id.au To: William Warren hescominsoon@emmanuelcomputerconsulting.com Cc: 'centos Linux' centos@caosity.org Subject: Re: [Centos] different iso's Date: Sat, 23 Oct 2004 10:40:54 +1000
On Sat, 2004-10-23 at 04:32, William Warren wrote:
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..:)
Extract the 3 iso's to a common directory (which can be used for LAN install or as a YUM base directory) and change the 4th line of the .discinfo file to be 1,2,3
This tree can be burnt as a DVD now.
Trevor B PS. What I mean by extract the 3 iso's to a common directory is ectract iso 1, and then add all the files from the other 2 iso's into the appropriate directories (eg. RedHat/RPMS)
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.
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TrevorB