On Mon, 15 Mar 2021 at 08:19, Robert Heller <heller at deepsoft.com> wrote: > At Sun, 14 Mar 2021 21:49:40 -0500 "Robert G. \(Doc\) Savage" < > dsavage at peaknet.net>, CentOS mailing list <centos at centos.org> wrote: > > > > > On Sun, 2021-03-14 at 21:31 -0400, John Plemons wrote: > > > Sounds like you need to use a dual layer DVD disc, it is double the > > > capacity. > > > > John, > > > > Wrong answer. The server's optical drive doesn't support double-layer > > disks. The CentOS developers made a mistake on their DVD iso, and they > > need to fix it. > > Actually not -- the CentOS ISOs have not been meant for optical media > since > CentOS 6 -- they have been meant for thumb drives (>= 8G). > > Exactly that. Upstream Fedora and RHEL went to require dual density around Fedora 18, RHEL-7 because the amount of data was too much. The CentOS developers have tried to their best to keep a single density working but there has been a constant race of problems with various 'important' packages having to be dropped from this ISO every time. For the final EL-7.x series, there were too many packages to do this with. The alternatives you have are: 1. Use CentOS-7.8 (or 7.7, or... ) as the boot media and then network update 2. Use CentOS-7.9 minimal and network update 3. Use CentOS-7.9 netiso and network install. 4. Use some mixture of the above with a USB disk of all the data and a kickstart to point to it so it gets there. 5. Look for a completely different alternative. > You are going to have to something different. Is it possible to do a > network > install on this machine. I believe the netboot ISO should be small enough > to > fit on a CD or DVD. > > > > > --Doc > > _______________________________________________ > > CentOS mailing list > > CentOS at centos.org > > https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > > > > > > > > -- > Robert Heller -- Cell: 413-658-7953 GV: 978-633-5364 > Deepwoods Software -- Custom Software Services > http://www.deepsoft.com/ -- Linux Administration Services > heller at deepsoft.com -- Webhosting Services > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > -- Stephen J Smoogen.