CentOS - Mar 2021 - CentOS-7-x86_64-dvd-2009.iso is too big for DVD blanks

I need help from someone experienced with the CentOS bug tracking
system. I gotta say it is one of the most complicated and imposing
front ends I've ever seen. Could anyone familiar with it please file a
bug on my behalf? Particulars:

"CentOS 7.9.2009 DVD iso image too large"

ISO image: CentOS-7-x86_64-DVD-2009.iso 4.7GB?raw CD image
Wed Nov ?4 05:37:25 2020
Burners: Both K3B and Brasero
Media: Both DVD-R and DVD+R single-layer disks

iso image: 4,712,300,544 bytes
User Anthony F McInerney advises Wikipedia says
DVD-R capacity: 4,707,319,808 bytes (max)

I have tried burning this same iso image on two different machines: a
CentOS 7.9 server and a Fedora 33 laptop. Same failure on both.

We need to ask the developers to make a re-spin that's about 5MB
smaller. And before someone suggests it, the 2010-vintage server I'm
trying to install CentOS on does not support booting from a thumb
drive, so that option is not available.

Thanks,

--Doc Savage
? ? Fairview Heights, IL

Sounds like you need to use a dual layer DVD disc, it is double the 
capacity.

john


On 3/14/2021 9:13 PM, Robert G. (Doc) Savage via CentOS
wrote:
> I need help from someone experienced with the CentOS bug tracking
> system. I gotta say it is one of the most complicated and imposing
> front ends I've ever seen. Could anyone familiar with it please file a
> bug on my behalf? Particulars:
>
> "CentOS 7.9.2009 DVD iso image too large"
>
> ISO image: CentOS-7-x86_64-DVD-2009.iso 4.7GB?raw CD image
> Wed Nov ?4 05:37:25 2020
> Burners: Both K3B and Brasero
> Media: Both DVD-R and DVD+R single-layer disks
>
> iso image: 4,712,300,544 bytes
> User Anthony F McInerney advises Wikipedia says
> DVD-R capacity: 4,707,319,808 bytes (max)
>
> I have tried burning this same iso image on two different machines: a
> CentOS 7.9 server and a Fedora 33 laptop. Same failure on both.
>
> We need to ask the developers to make a re-spin that's about 5MB
> smaller. And before someone suggests it, the 2010-vintage server I'm
> trying to install CentOS on does not support booting from a thumb
> drive, so that option is not available.
>
> Thanks,
>
> --Doc Savage
>  ? ? Fairview Heights, IL
>
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> On Mar 14, 2021, at 8:13 PM, Robert G. (Doc) Savage via CentOS <centos
at centos.org> wrote:
> 
> I need help from someone experienced with the CentOS bug tracking
> system. I gotta say it is one of the most complicated and imposing
> front ends I've ever seen. Could anyone familiar with it please file a
> bug on my behalf? Particulars:
> 
> "CentOS 7.9.2009 DVD iso image too large"
> 
> ISO image: CentOS-7-x86_64-DVD-2009.iso 4.7GB raw CD image
> Wed Nov  4 05:37:25 2020
> Burners: Both K3B and Brasero
> Media: Both DVD-R and DVD+R single-layer disks
> 
> iso image: 4,712,300,544 bytes
> User Anthony F McInerney advises Wikipedia says
> DVD-R capacity: 4,707,319,808 bytes (max)
> 
> I have tried burning this same iso image on two different machines: a
> CentOS 7.9 server and a Fedora 33 laptop. Same failure on both.
> 
> We need to ask the developers to make a re-spin that's about 5MB
> smaller. And before someone suggests it, the 2010-vintage server I'm
> trying to install CentOS on does not support booting from a thumb
> drive, so that option is not available.
Double layer DVD comes to my mind.

But I agree, it is annoying, and I?ve seen things like that, this is not the
first time I see alleged DVD image doesn?t fit into DVD it?s supposed to be
burned to.

Valeri
> Thanks,
> 
> --Doc Savage
>     Fairview Heights, IL
> 
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Hi,

you can also burn it to a DL (dual layer) DVD (like the Centos 8 image).

regards,

    Michel


On 2021-03-15 02:13, Robert G. (Doc) Savage via CentOS
wrote:
> I need help from someone experienced with the CentOS bug tracking
> system. I gotta say it is one of the most complicated and imposing
> front ends I've ever seen. Could anyone familiar with it please file a
> bug on my behalf? Particulars:
> 
> "CentOS 7.9.2009 DVD iso image too large"
> 
> ISO image: CentOS-7-x86_64-DVD-2009.iso 4.7GB?raw CD image
> Wed Nov ?4 05:37:25 2020
> Burners: Both K3B and Brasero
> Media: Both DVD-R and DVD+R single-layer disks
> 
> iso image: 4,712,300,544 bytes
> User Anthony F McInerney advises Wikipedia says
> DVD-R capacity: 4,707,319,808 bytes (max)
> 
> I have tried burning this same iso image on two different machines: a
> CentOS 7.9 server and a Fedora 33 laptop. Same failure on both.
> 
> We need to ask the developers to make a re-spin that's about 5MB
> smaller. And before someone suggests it, the 2010-vintage server I'm
> trying to install CentOS on does not support booting from a thumb
> drive, so that option is not available.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> --Doc Savage
> ? ? Fairview Heights, IL
> 
> _______________________________________________
> CentOS mailing list
> CentOS at centos.org
> https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

On Sun, 14 Mar 2021, Robert G. (Doc) Savage via CentOS wrote:
> We need to ask the developers to make a re-spin that's about 5MB
> smaller. And before someone suggests it, the 2010-vintage server I'm
> trying to install CentOS on does not support booting from a thumb
> drive, so that option is not available.
What will it boot from?
I do not use thumb drives.
I have a USB interface to SD cards.
Can you make the .iso file into a disk partition (not a file in it)?
I've sometimes booted from one of those.

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On 3/14/21 8:13 PM, Robert G. (Doc) Savage via CentOS
wrote:
> I need help from someone experienced with the CentOS bug tracking
> system. I gotta say it is one of the most complicated and imposing
> front ends I've ever seen. Could anyone familiar with it please file a
> bug on my behalf? Particulars:
> 
> "CentOS 7.9.2009 DVD iso image too large"
> 
> ISO image: CentOS-7-x86_64-DVD-2009.iso 4.7GB?raw CD image
> Wed Nov ?4 05:37:25 2020
> Burners: Both K3B and Brasero
> Media: Both DVD-R and DVD+R single-layer disks
> 
> iso image: 4,712,300,544 bytes
> User Anthony F McInerney advises Wikipedia says
> DVD-R capacity: 4,707,319,808 bytes (max)
> 
> I have tried burning this same iso image on two different machines: a
> CentOS 7.9 server and a Fedora 33 laptop. Same failure on both.
> 
> We need to ask the developers to make a re-spin that's about 5MB
> smaller. And before someone suggests it, the 2010-vintage server I'm
> trying to install CentOS on does not support booting from a thumb
> drive, so that option is not available.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> --Doc Savage
> ? ? Fairview Heights, IL
Guys ..

In order to do a full install set, we need a certain set of packages.

This set of packages is pretty much set in stone (you need all the deps
to do every install in the comps set).  I can not really adjust this
package set unless we take some items off the installer.

This means that the DVD is indeed too big for some media.

If you are having issues and you HAVE to use a DVD and can not use a usb
key .. please use the minimal ISO or the NetInstall ISO instead.