The whole confusion was, instead of downloading the Live DVD install, I downloaded the DVD version, and made the default installation option (overlooking it) and it gave me only a minimal install by default. So it was nothing but a silly mistake, I am sorry about it. Didnt quite realize it. On Wednesday 03 February 2016 04:02 PM, Peter wrote: > On 03/02/16 19:15, Ramaseshan wrote: >> Yep, This is true, >> If I look at Fedora Gnome for example, which also ships all >> these(browser,libre, gnome etc), the final DVD version is just about 1.2 GB. >> That is what surprises me. > You're comparing apples to oranges. The Fedora images are live DVD, > please note that CentOS also offers live DVD images which are 1.2 and > 1.7G for GNOME and KDE respectively (for CentOS 7). The installation > DVD not only contains *both* GNOME and KDE (each live DVD image only > contains one of these), but also other programs that are not on the live > DVD. > > > Peter > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos -- Cheers -- S.Ramaseshan Engineer Fractalio Data Pvt Ltd email : ramaseshan at fractalio.com Web : www.fractalio.com