I'm sure this has already been called to your attention, but I will email anyway.
It appears that the x86 LiveCD ISOs have been maximized in size so that they can _just_ fit on a standard CD. However, the x64 ISOs simply contain the same packages with the different arch, but are larger (presumably due to compatibility libraries, binary size, and such). This makes them too large to fit on a single CD.
Matthew
Matthew Curry wrote:
I'm sure this has already been called to your attention, but I will email anyway.
It appears that the x86 LiveCD ISOs have been maximized in size so that they can _just_ fit on a standard CD. However, the x64 ISOs simply contain the same packages with the different arch, but are larger (presumably due to compatibility libraries, binary size, and such). This makes them too large to fit on a single CD.
Yes. See http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora7/FAQ. They are live images and due to multilib support by default that x86_64 images are larger. The rationale is that x86_64 are likely to be affected if we remove multilib and those systems are likely to be more recent and hence have a DVD drive.
There has been some recent discussions in fedora-desktop list about changing this.
Rahul
Would it truly be a LiveCD (as opposed to LiveDVD) if it doesn't fit on a CD? :) It was that semi-misnomer that made me assume I could burn it to a CD in the first place. Of course, I didn't check the size before I started, and only discovered it when I tried to burn.
The reason this matters is because I was burning the CD for the x64 machine on an older machine with only CD-RW, because the x64 machine has no operating system...
Matthew
On Fri, 03 Aug 2007 22:45:21 +0530, "Rahul Sundaram" sundaram@fedoraproject.org said:
Matthew Curry wrote:
I'm sure this has already been called to your attention, but I will email anyway.
It appears that the x86 LiveCD ISOs have been maximized in size so that they can _just_ fit on a standard CD. However, the x64 ISOs simply contain the same packages with the different arch, but are larger (presumably due to compatibility libraries, binary size, and such). This makes them too large to fit on a single CD.
Yes. See http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora7/FAQ. They are live images and due to multilib support by default that x86_64 images are larger. The rationale is that x86_64 are likely to be affected if we remove multilib and those systems are likely to be more recent and hence have a DVD drive.
There has been some recent discussions in fedora-desktop list about changing this.
Rahul
Matthew Curry wrote:
Would it truly be a LiveCD (as opposed to LiveDVD) if it doesn't fit on a CD? :) It was that semi-misnomer that made me assume I could burn it to a CD in the first place. Of course, I didn't check the size before I started, and only discovered it when I tried to burn.
It would be misnomer definitely which is why we never call it a Live CD anywhere in our content. We have called them Live images and the FAQ I pointed out has the sizes listed and the reasons why they differ in sizes. I am sorry if something misled you otherwise. Point it out and we will fix it,
The reason this matters is because I was burning the CD for the x64 machine on an older machine with only CD-RW, because the x64 machine has no operating system...
You can do a network or hard disk based installation with the small boot/rescue images. Check out the installation guide at http://docs.fedoraproject.org for details.
Rahul
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