[CentOS-devel] CentOS 7 liveCD survey

Ironically, I work in an environment, where a usb stick is forbidden, but that said, I usually try to use the liveDVD's. I only have one system that has only a cd drive (no dvd), but the older releases support it just fine. So that's cool. 



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Fabian,

I think the browser is the one component you must not remove from the Live "CD".
I agree with Manuel, just take as much space as is needed to do a reasonable job and make sure dd-ing to USB stick works. Don't publish handicaped ISOs. :)

Most people's machines nowadays hardly even have a DVD reader, let alone a CD one; e.g the last laptop I bought (2 years ago) came without such optical unit.

Lucian

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> From: "Fabian Arrotin" <arrfab at centos.org>
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> Sent: Wednesday, 25 November, 2015 14:42:43
> Subject: [CentOS-devel] CentOS 7 liveCD survey

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> Hi,
> 
> While working on the next 7.1511 Live media, I discovered that the 
> size for the actual CentOS 7 LiveCD would be more than 700MB.
> 
> It's due to some packages being now bigger and bigger, also due to the 
> big Gnome 3.8 -> 3.14 rebase.
> One obvious package I can remove from the packages manifest (which 
> itself is consuming more and more space) is Firefox.
> 
> If I remove it from the packages manifest (only for LiveCD, it will 
> obviously stay for the LiveGnome and LiveKDE DVD iso images), it's 
> then back to 650 MB, so that would mean that one would still be able 
> to burn it on a CD.
> 
> But the real question is then : does that even make sense ? for each 
> release, we're now fighting with disk space constraints, and I'm each 
> time removing packages from that LiveCD image. If we remove Firefox 
> itself, that would mean that such LiveCD would be useful just for 
> people willing to "test" CentOS on their hardware, but that would be a 
> basic Gnome desktop.
> 
> It builds/runs fine, can be installed too (like before), but I'd like 
> your opinion about this.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
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