On Mon, 15 Mar 2021 at 08:19, Robert Heller <heller@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> At Sun, 14 Mar 2021 21:49:40 -0500 "Robert G. \(Doc\) Savage" <
> dsavage@xxxxxxxxxxx>, CentOS mailing list <centos@xxxxxxxxxx> 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
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