[CentOS-devel] Idea for single CD install
John Summerfield
debian at herakles.homelinux.org
Sat Sep 16 14:09:14 UTC 2006
Johnny Hughes wrote:
> On Fri, 2006-09-15 at 10:30 -0400, Charlie Brady wrote:
>
>>On Fri, 15 Sep 2006, Karanbir Singh wrote:
>>
>>
>>>Shriramana Sharma wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>>Single CD installs will go a long way to popularize CentOS, IMHO.
>>>
>>>There already is a Single CD installer, with a default Server Mode selection,
>>>but nothing stops you from doing a minimal install and then yum groupinstall
>>>'GNOME Desktop'
>>
>>Lack of readily available bandwidth might. Try it over 14.4k dialup if you
>>have doubts.
>
>
> There are any number of ISO sellers for people to purchase ISOs from for
> situations like that.
>
> It is not possible to provide all the content on the liveCD on a single
> anaconda installable CD. (The liveCD is nearly 2GB in size and made
> smaller by squashfs/unionfs.
Most of the files (rpms) are already compressed, so space for those
shouldn't be an issue. Running the rest through mkzftree and then using
mkisofs -z should attend to the rest. Then it's just an issue of package
selection:-)
Be aware, though, that the resultant CD could only be read sensibly on
Linux; Mac OS, Windows & the rest won't be able to display file contents
correctly.
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Cheers
John
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