CentOS - Jul 2012 - size of netinst iso

Hi.

I was wanting to set up a centos 6 virtual machine using the netinst iso 
image. I've done this for Centos 5 before but I was surprised to see 
that the size of the netinst iso had gone from +/- 10Mb to 227Mb. I was 
therefore wondering if I had the right file? If so, why did it get 22x 
bigger then the previous version?

Regards,

Johan

From: Johan Jonkers <johan at is-a-nut.net>
>I was wanting to set up a centos 6 virtual machine using the netinst iso
>image. I've done this for Centos 5 before but I was surprised to see
>that the size of the netinst iso had gone from +/- 10Mb to 227Mb. I was
>therefore wondering if I had the right file? If so, why did it get 22x
>bigger then the previous version?
If you actually look inside the ISO files...

5.8:
14M???? isolinux

6.2:
34M???? isolinux
360K??? images/efiboot.img
34M???? images/efidisk.img
130M??? images/install.img
34M???? images/pxeboot

JD

On 07/03/2012 10:14 AM, Johan Jonkers wrote:
> Hi.
> 
> I was wanting to set up a centos 6 virtual machine using the netinst iso 
> image. I've done this for Centos 5 before but I was surprised to see 
> that the size of the netinst iso had gone from +/- 10Mb to 227Mb. I was 
> therefore wondering if I had the right file? If so, why did it get 22x 
> bigger then the previous version?
The difference ist that the second installer stage has been included in the
iso. As a result you only need this iso to boot into rescue mode.
With the old Centos 5 iso you could boot it but in order to do anything you
had to first have to connect to a mirror to get the second installer stage.

Regards,
  Dennis

On 07/03/2012 03:14 AM, Johan Jonkers wrote:
> Hi.
>
> I was wanting to set up a centos 6 virtual machine using the netinst iso 
> image. I've done this for Centos 5 before but I was surprised to see 
> that the size of the netinst iso had gone from +/- 10Mb to 227Mb. I was 
> therefore wondering if I had the right file? If so, why did it get 22x 
> bigger then the previous version?
Also, when comparing MAJOR versions of CentOS (that is 5.x to 6.x)
please remember that there is a fairly major time difference between
these releases when compared to other non-enterprise Linux versions. 
Doing 5.x to 6.x is like comparing Fedora 6 to Fedora 12.  That is a
fairly big jump in technology.

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