Contents of install DVD vs CDs

Robert Moskowitz rgm at htt-consult.com
Wed Nov 24 22:53:45 UTC 2010


On 11/24/2010 05:18 PM, Kevin J. Cummings wrote:
> 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.

This all confirms what I am seeing.  I will have to work this out.  I 
will download everything and do the install again, bet it goes well this 
time.  And then work with the Amahi people about what is happening.




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