> On 3/4/11 5:33 AM, Johnny Hughes wrote: >> On 03/03/2011 11:44 PM, Jimmy Bradley wrote: >>> I do have one question about Cent OS 6. >>> Sonetimes back, I remember reading that the plan was to spread the >>> iso's >>> over multiple cd's, rather than put it all on 1 dvd. Is that still the >>> plan? As far as when it's released, I say take all the time you need. >>> I'd rather have an os that works, than something that's just thrown >>> together, and is about as stable as windows me, or vista. >>> >> >> That will depend upon how upstream wrote the item that splits the RPMs. >> The distros are getting so big now that it might not make sense to >> continue to create CDs ... CentOS 5.6 will have at least 8 (and maybe 9) >> CDs for x86_64. I would expect that number to grow for CentOS 6. In >> fact, we already had to split 5.5 x86_64 over 2 DVDs, and both arches >> for CentOS 6 will likely be 2 DVDs. > > I always liked the way you could NFS-install from a directory containing > the > downloaded CD iso images but I could never get that to work with a dvd > iso. Is > there an equally easy way to install from a DVD image on a box without a > DVD drive? Yes, it's still possible, but needs a little bit more work. In the directory where the DVD ISO is, you have to create a directory called images and put the install.img file from the ISO there: [someone at ftp x86_64]$ ll -R .: total 3953768 drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Nov 12 15:25 images -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 210 Nov 12 12:31 MD5SUMS -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 232761344 Oct 26 03:16 rhel-server-6.0-x86_64-boot.iso -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 3431618560 Oct 26 19:09 rhel-server-6.0-x86_64-dvd.iso -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 380297216 Nov 4 21:48 rhel-server-supplementary-6.0-x86_64-dvd.iso ./images: total 119780 -r--r--r-- 1 root root 122527744 Sep 23 00:04 install.img Regards, Simon