[CentOS] About I386 not fitting on one DVD
Always Learning
centos at u6.u22.net
Sun Jul 17 02:59:01 UTC 2011
On Sat, 2011-07-16 at 19:50 -0700, david wrote:
> If the I386 (or i686, never could figure out why the name change)
> disk doesn't quite fit on the DVD+, and needs a DVD-, this might put
> some folks at an inconvenience.
>
> I wonder if the difference between fitting and not fitting is small
> enough, so that some amount of pruning might make it fit on the DVD+R
> image. Some ways to prune could be:
>
> a) Create two versions of the DVD, one with all the non-ideographic
> languages included, and one with the ideographic languares and a
> subset of the alphabet languages (English, German, French, ...)
>
> b) Find some less used but large package which presumes internet
> access. It could be downloaded with YUM
>
> c) Tackle the code bloat (oh yah, sure)
Centos 5.6 X86_64 is on two DVDs. Can not determine if -R or +R. However
when installing, disk 2 is never required.
With best regards,
Paul.
England,
EU.
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