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. -- Cheers John -- spambait 1aaaaaaa at coco.merseine.nu Z1aaaaaaa at coco.merseine.nu Tourist pics http://portgeographe.environmentaldisasters.cds.merseine.nu/ Please do not reply off-list