Michael Hennebry
2021-Mar-16 15:16 UTC
[CentOS] CentOS-7-x86_64-dvd-2009.iso is too big for DVD blanks
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. -- Michael hennebry at web.cs.ndsu.NoDak.edu "Sorry but your password must contain an uppercase letter, a number, a haiku, a gang sign, a heiroglyph, and the blood of a virgin." -- someeecards
On March 16, 2021 11:16:21 AM EDT, Michael Hennebry <hennebry at web.cs.ndsu.nodak.edu> wrote:>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.To the OP: Is it possible to install an earlier release that might conceivably be smaller, then run yum update?