Contents of install DVD vs CDs
Kevin J. Cummings
cummings at kjchome.homeip.net
Wed Nov 24 22:18:46 UTC 2010
On 11/24/2010 05:08 PM, Robert Moskowitz wrote:
> Does the F12 (and I suppose 13 and 14) install DVD have more on it than
> the install CDs?
IIRC, the CDs (which disappeared at one point, only to re-appear again)
contain the same content as the DVD, only broken into bite-sized (CD)
pieces.
> I know that yum points to the ''everything' repo which is more inclusive
> than the install CDs.
Yes. The DVD and CDs are only intended to get you up and running, and
have a specific table of contents which is decided by the what can fit
on the DVD. Everything else get shunted to the Everything repo.
> I ask this because I just installed an Amahi system using a local repo
> built from the install CDs and many of the dependencies for Amahi are
> NOT met during the install. They, for the most part, get picked up later.
Which is why Everything is the repo configured after the install.
> I have enough disk on my repo server to hold the everything tree, but I
> am wondering if that is my problem, or if it is Amahi's.
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