On 25 June 2014 16:02, Karanbir Singh <mail-lists at karan.org> wrote: > Hi > > As in CentOS-6, I think we should skip the CD isos; there is little > point in that ( but we should do the minimal ISO, lets keep conversation > about that on its own thread ). > > The main distro is just a hint over 6.6GB, that means we cant really put > all the stuff into a single DVD[1]; so we need to do the splits. In the > past, we've done multiple installs making sure that all the installable > components from the installer's groups, in english atleast, are all on > DVD#1 and the rest can goto DVD#2. I suspect that strategy will work > here as well, and does someone want to give it a shot and come up with a > list of rpms that are installable via the installer. > > If anyone is wondering about the rest: yes, there are rpms included in > the distro, hosted in the DVD's that are not installable from the groups > available to the user at install time. They can certainly be installed > from kickstart, but the general assumption is that people doing those > sort of installs are likely not doing them from DVD media. > > Also, there seems to be interest in jidgo; has anyone worked with that > in the past ? and whats to help us get that setup as well ? > > I think we 'tried' it a couple of times in Fedora. It is a nice idea but never got past the 'its a nice idea' stage as most of the people working on it kept finding better things to do with their time :). At which point it became the project for the next people... > Regards > > [1]: maybe we should do a single large 6.6GB ISO as well, and have it > available only on torrents, for people who might want or have access to > that large format media, or people who just want a copy of the primary > repo without using rsync. Thoughts ? > A 6.6 GB iso is useful for USB installs.. but at that time you might as well make a 12 GB ISO with all the src.rpms included too. Great booth giveaway and everything. -- Stephen J Smoogen. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-devel/attachments/20140625/cfd6cb7d/attachment-0007.html>