[CentOS-promo] DVD Media / Any needed before 6.3 release?

Tue Feb 7 11:18:53 UTC 2012
Manuel Wolfshant <wolfy at nobugconsulting.ro>

On 02/07/2012 01:14 PM, Andreas Rogge wrote:
>
> I talked to Karanbir concerning merging multiple Images onto a
> Double-Layer DVD. From what I heard right now that's not a good idea.
> Someone doing professional disk duplication told me that they have a
> significant (i.e.>20%) amount of degraded disks when they produce DL-DVDs.
> As DL is just a few cents cheaper than producing three single-layer
> disks it doesn't make sense if burning fails that often.
>
> So for now, I don't propose to do a DL DVD anymore.
>
to be honest I avoided DL so far due to price. over here they still are 
prohibitive, compared to SL


> However, I do propose to merge x86_64 and i386 Live DVDs. They will both
> fit onto a single-layer DVD.
> That would bring us from 4 different Images down to three.
>
> In fact we could try to do what Fedora did. They're able to autodetect
> 32-bit/64-bit and boot the appropriate Live Image. As that happens
> inside the bootloader we should be able to reproduce it.
definitely +1 here