Can someone please advise where I can get a minimal DVD ISO of CentOS Stream 9? I do have a regular ISO, but I can not burn it to a 8.5 GB DVD (I get the message that the DVD is too small.) I need to use DVD to install CentOS as my old (even powerful enough) PC does not support booting from an USB.
How old is the hardware? CentOS Stream 9 requires x86_64-v2 compatible CPUs to work, so if your hardware is older than that it won’t install.
In terms of a minimal DVD ISO, the project doesn’t create one currently. We have a boot.iso that can be used to begin a network installation. There is a CentOS Stream SIG being created around generating additional images, but I don’t believe it is up and running yet.
CC @tdawson
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Thanks for quick reply. The computer is around 10ish years old, CPU is Intel Core 2 Duo E7400 2,80 GHz x 2. Where can I get boot.iso please?
For CentOS Stream, we don’t have a minimal install DVD ready yet.
Because creating one involves setting up infrastructure, which is not in my control, I currently don’t have an estimate of when we will have one.
My suggestion is to try the Alma Linux 9.0 minimal DVD.
http://mirror.chpc.utah.edu/pub/almalinux/9.0/isos/x86_64/
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Thank you, I will try Alma Linux.
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I know this is an old topic, but we do have a solution at this time.
The CentOS Alternative Images SIG has been creating images since the beginning of 2024. Among them is the MIN image.
https://mirror.stream.centos.org/SIGs/9-stream/altimages/images/live/x86_64/
It may, or may not be what you want. It is a live image, that allows you to install it via the text based anaconda installer.
How did you find this URL? A lot of links on https://www.centos.org/ are broken. Looks like official site is slowing dying.
It’s linked from the Alternative Images SIG documentation: CentOS Alternative Images SIG
We’re aware that the CentOS website has issues and are actively working on a revamp that should hopefully make information like this much easier to find.