Re: [CentOS] I am not understanding the size of the iso

2016-02-03 Thread Ramaseshan
The whole confusion was, instead of downloading the Live DVD install, I downloaded the DVD version, and made the default installation option (overlooking it) and it gave me only a minimal install by default. So it was nothing but a silly mistake, I am sorry about it. Didnt quite realize it. On

Re: [CentOS] I am not understanding the size of the iso

2016-02-03 Thread Ramaseshan
Sorry, I understand the size of the ISO. I overlooked the installation options. Now its all clear. On Wednesday 03 February 2016 04:02 PM, Peter wrote: > On 03/02/16 19:15, Ramaseshan wrote: >> Yep, This is true, >> If I look at Fedora Gnome for example, which also ships all >> these(browser,libr

Re: [CentOS] I am not understanding the size of the iso

2016-02-03 Thread Peter
On 03/02/16 19:15, Ramaseshan wrote: > Yep, This is true, > If I look at Fedora Gnome for example, which also ships all > these(browser,libre, gnome etc), the final DVD version is just about 1.2 GB. > That is what surprises me. You're comparing apples to oranges. The Fedora images are live DVD, p

Re: [CentOS] I am not understanding the size of the iso

2016-02-02 Thread John R Pierce
On 2/2/2016 10:29 PM, Eero Volotinen wrote: redhat (centos) ships lot's of stuff. you don't really need to install *everything* unless you have very specific needs.. I pretty much always install the 'minimal' ISO then install the specific packages I need with yum. lots of reasons, not the

Re: [CentOS] I am not understanding the size of the iso

2016-02-02 Thread Eero Volotinen
redhat (centos) ships lot's of stuff. you don't really need to install *everything* unless you have very specific needs.. 2016-02-03 8:15 GMT+02:00 Ramaseshan : > Yep, This is true, > If I look at Fedora Gnome for example, which also ships all > these(browser,libre, gnome etc), the final DVD vers

Re: [CentOS] I am not understanding the size of the iso

2016-02-02 Thread Ramaseshan
Yep, This is true, If I look at Fedora Gnome for example, which also ships all these(browser,libre, gnome etc), the final DVD version is just about 1.2 GB. That is what surprises me. On Wednesday 03 February 2016 08:52 AM, Peter wrote: > On 03/02/16 16:15, Ramaseshan S wrote: >> While the minimal

Re: [CentOS] I am not understanding the size of the iso

2016-02-02 Thread Peter
On 03/02/16 16:15, Ramaseshan S wrote: > While the minimal version is just 700M, what makes the minimal along with a > GUI about 4.3 GB. All the extra packages, libs, etc that are needed to support the GUI, plus the extra apps that are available to run in the GUI (such as LibreOffice, FireFox, etc

Re: [CentOS] I am not understanding the size of the iso

2016-02-02 Thread Digimer
On 02/02/16 10:15 PM, Ramaseshan S wrote: > I suppose, CentOS 7 ships with DVD and minimal version. > > While the minimal version is just 700M, what makes the minimal along with a > GUI about 4.3 GB. > > Isint it too huge for an OS ? Remember that it is based on upstream. Anyway, there is a LOT

[CentOS] I am not understanding the size of the iso

2016-02-02 Thread Ramaseshan S
I suppose, CentOS 7 ships with DVD and minimal version. While the minimal version is just 700M, what makes the minimal along with a GUI about 4.3 GB. Isint it too huge for an OS ? -- Cheers -- S.Ramaseshan Engineer fractalio.com ramases...@fractalio.com