Johnny Hughes wrote:
> On 2/2/19 5:47 PM, Brendan Brewster wrote:
>
>> Just curious. In the two most recent releases of CentOS 7 AltArch i386
>> there has not been made available a DVD iso (or the live ones) alongside
>> NetInstall/Minimal/Everything. Any plans to make available the DVD
>> variation for the current or future releases?
>>
>> For older 32-bit hardware, it can be nice to be able to burn a single
>> layer DVD.
>
> Currently all the Alternative arches get the same ISOs .. which are
> Everything, Minimal, NetInstall. (except of course for armhfp .. were
> the install is very different).
>
> It takes a bunch of extra work / testing to develop the DVD install ISO.
> It requires a unique package list to only include items needed from the
> installer.
>
> I would say that the best way to install CentOS is with the Minimal
> install and yum groups afterwards .. or a net install.
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Johnny, I'm very much against the minimal, given that it doesn't seem to
set up networking... nor does it appear to install perl, based on some
recent experience.
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