On 3/13/21 1:19 PM, Robert G. (Doc) Savage via users wrote:
On Sat, 2021-03-13 at 02:26 +0000, Anthony F McInerney wrote:
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> On Fri, 12 Mar 2021 at 22:49, Robert G. (Doc) Savage via users
> <users(a)lists.fedoraproject.org
> <mailto:users@lists.fedoraproject.org>> wrote:
>> On Fri, 2021-03-12 at 16:22 -0500, Terry Polzin wrote:
>>> Did you check the checksums? Bad download?
>>>
>>> On Fri, Mar 12, 2021 at 4:15 PM Robert G. (Doc) Savage via users
>>> <users(a)lists.fedoraproject.org
>>> <mailto:users@lists.fedoraproject.org>> wrote:
>>>> Is the CentOS-7-x86_64-DVD-2009.iso really too big to burn on a
>>>> DVD-R? Brasero under Centos 7.9 and Fedora 33 both say a 4.7GB
>>>> blank disk isn't big enough.
>>>>
>>>> --Doc Savage
>>>> Fairview Heights, IL
>>
>> Terry,
>>
>> The checksums are perfect. What I am probably looking for is anyone
>> who CAN burn that iso to a blank DVD-R or DVD+R. If Brasero won't do
>> it, is it because the iso image is just every-so-slightly too large?
>>
>> In this particular situation, dd-ing the image to an 8GB thumb drive
>> is not a player because the target machine is a 2011 vintage Dell
>> PowerEdge that does not support booting from thumb drives.
>>
>> --Doc Savage
>> Fairview Heights, IL
>>
>>
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> According to wikipedia DVD-R gets you the closest: 4,707,319,808 (MAX)
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> CentOS-7-x86_64-DVD-2009.iso bytes: 4,712,300,544
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> It's only slightly over, it's possible that at least k3b and maybe
> xfburn supports 'overburn' . (I remember this more from the CD days
> than DVD though).
>
> Otherwise I wonder if you could use 'ISO Master' and downsize it
> slightly.
Anthony,
THANK YOU. Yours is precisely the answer I was looking for. That iso
file should never have been released as part of the general distribution.
I wonder how I could ask for that iso to be rebuilt to a size that
fits on a blank DVD.
--Doc Savage
Fairview Heights, IL
There is a program called "PlopBootmgr" that can be installed on a CD
that will allow systems to boot from a usb drive that don't have that as
a boot option.