[CentOS] Re: CentOS 4 install DVD

Fri Jul 29 12:51:28 UTC 2005
William Hooper <whooperhsd3 at earthlink.net>

Johnny Hughes wrote:
> On Thu, 2005-07-28 at 23:50 -0500, Aleksandar Milivojevic wrote:
>
>> Johnny Hughes wrote:
>>
>>
>>> The problem with the DVD is that it is > 2.0 GB and can not be served
>>> via apache (and even some FTP servers) because of this size.  It is
>>> also a bandwidth issue and storage issue (there are about 20GB of
>>> DVDs, the
>>> entire tree is only 60GB without DVDs).
>>
>> Just out of pure curiosity.  What is then Red Hat using?  If I remeber
>> correctly, Fedora DVD images are available from their HTTP/FTP servers.
>> And I guess it would be bad PR if they don't use what they ship with
>> their flagship OS ;-)
>
> Neither RHEL or FedoraCore is available via DVD from official Red Hat
> channels ...

Close, but not quite.  RHEL doesn't have an official DVD, but FC does.

> So they don't serve > 2gb files.

Sure they do, remember FTP?

[snip]
>
> If you don't believe me concerning RH not distributing DVDs, see this
> link:
> http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/4/i386/iso/

No, I don't.  And I have a link, too.

ftp://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/4/i386/iso/

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William Hooper