CentOS - Oct 2004 - different iso's

I am wondering if there are any plans to release a large dvd iso 
of the centos distribution?  dvd burners are taking off and this 
would be a good addition.  Instead of three cd iso's one big dvd iso.
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My "Foundation" verse:
Isa 54:17  No weapon that is formed against thee shall prosper; 
and every tongue that shall rise against thee in judgment thou 
shalt condemn. This is the heritage of the servants of the LORD, 
and their righteousness is of me, saith the LORD.

-- carpe ductum -- "Grab the tape"

Not a bad idea, but is there really any major benefit?

Surely the extra 4GB taken up by the DVD could be put to better use.  

If you want to find a method of installing without have to swap discs all
the time, why not try a network install (I use my Windows Desktop machine
running Apache, for any HTTP installs I do).  In this way you can also keep
an up-to-date yum respository which you can also burn to DVD's yourself if
you wish. Also (as I recently discovered) on disc 1 is an kernel and initrd
that allows you to do a completely discless installation using PXE network
boot, tried it last night and it works great.

Just my 2 pennies worth anyway.

Regards

Lee

-----Original Message-----
From: William Warren [mailto:hescominsoon at emmanuelcomputerconsulting.com] 
Sent: 22 October 2004 18:22
To: centos Linux
Subject: [Centos] different iso's


I am wondering if there are any plans to release a large dvd iso 
of the centos distribution?  dvd burners are taking off and this 
would be a good addition.  Instead of three cd iso's one big dvd iso.
-- 
My "Foundation" verse:
Isa 54:17  No weapon that is formed against thee shall prosper; 
and every tongue that shall rise against thee in judgment thou 
shalt condemn. This is the heritage of the servants of the LORD, 
and their righteousness is of me, saith the LORD.

-- carpe ductum -- "Grab the tape"
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-----Forwarded Message-----
> From: Trevor Batley <trevor at batley.id.au>
> To: William Warren <hescominsoon at emmanuelcomputerconsulting.com>
> Cc: 'centos Linux' <centos at caosity.org>
> Subject: Re: [Centos] different iso's
> Date: Sat, 23 Oct 2004 10:40:54 +1000
> 
> On Sat, 2004-10-23 at 04:32, William Warren wrote:
> > network install is nice..but you still have to download that 4 
> > gigs..frankly for me i have better usage for 4 gigs and having it 
> > all on one dvd is much more convenient..:)
> > 
> Extract the 3 iso's to a common directory (which can be used for LAN
> install or as a YUM base directory) and change the 4th line of the
> .discinfo file to be 1,2,3
> 
> This tree can be burnt as a DVD now.
> 
> Trevor B
> PS. What I mean by extract the 3 iso's to a common directory is ectract
> iso 1, and then add all the files from the other 2 iso's into the
> appropriate directories (eg. RedHat/RPMS)
> 
> > Lee W wrote:
> > 
> > > Not a bad idea, but is there really any major benefit?
> > > 
> > > Surely the extra 4GB taken up by the DVD could be put to better
use.
> > > 
> > > If you want to find a method of installing without have to swap
discs all
> > > the time, why not try a network install (I use my Windows Desktop
machine
> > > running Apache, for any HTTP installs I do).  In this way you can
also keep
> > > an up-to-date yum respository which you can also burn to
DVD's yourself if
> > > you wish. Also (as I recently discovered) on disc 1 is an kernel
and initrd
> > > that allows you to do a completely discless installation using
PXE network
> > > boot, tried it last night and it works great.
> > > 
> > > Just my 2 pennies worth anyway.
> > > 
> > > Regards
> > > 
> > > Lee
> > > 
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: William Warren [mailto:hescominsoon at
emmanuelcomputerconsulting.com]
> > > Sent: 22 October 2004 18:22
> > > To: centos Linux
> > > Subject: [Centos] different iso's
> > > 
> > > 
> > > I am wondering if there are any plans to release a large dvd iso 
> > > of the centos distribution?  dvd burners are taking off and this 
> > > would be a good addition.  Instead of three cd iso's one big
dvd iso.
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