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9 March 2006 - 8:02am
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If, for example, ZEN7 came on 2 DVDs instead of lots of CDs, is there anyone out there today who’d be unable to install it? It’s something that’s being considered…




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Stuart Beckett's picture

As long as the images are

Submitted by Stuart Beckett (not verified) on 9 March 2006 - 9:47am.

As long as the images are also able to be downloaded for the CDs that should not be a problem. We are mounting the ISOs on the server or unzipping them to the workstation to run the installs.

David Rickard's picture

Oh God yes please! DVDs

Submitted by David Rickard (not verified) on 10 March 2006 - 4:57am.

Oh God yes please! DVDs would be fantastic! Having to download and burn all those CDs is a right pain. To just have one or two disks would be so good.

Jon Strickland's picture

Are these single layer or

Submitted by Jon Strickland (not verified) on 10 March 2006 - 1:42pm.

Are these single layer or dual layer DVDs? If they are dual layer then there should be enough room to squeeze the CDs on there in ISO format.

T.J. Schmitz's picture

Definitely - CDs are so

Submitted by T.J. Schmitz (not verified) on 10 March 2006 - 1:52pm.

Definitely - CDs are so 1990s. Our new minimum server and desktop standards include DVD drives. I'd even take it a step further and make it standard to have an DVD .iso available for those of us who get software via downloads. I'm on an SLA, and I can't imagine I'm the only one who rolls his own DVDs from the CD iso files.

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I need to clarify my first

Submitted by Jon Strickland (not verified) on 10 March 2006 - 2:27pm.

I need to clarify my first post. When I said "squeeze the CDs on there in ISO format" I meant IN ADDITION to having the software on there so that we can install directly from the DVDs if we wanted to. Juggling 12 .iso files that total over 5 GB takes a bit of time. Granted that would be necessary for those who only have servers with CD drives.

Novell Technical Subscriptions already provides ZEN7 on 2 DVDs but only the ISO files are on them, 9 ISOs on DVD 1 and 3 ISOs on DVD 2. Hopefully the "product version" of ZEN 7 will come on two dual layer DVDs so those of us who have servers with DVD drives have a choice when installing ZEN 7. The less hoops we have to jump through to get the software loaded the better.

David if your servers aren't tight on disk space you don't have to burn the CDs. As Stuart mentioned you can copy the ISOs up to the server and mount them.

For NetWare: http://www.novell.com/coolsolutions/tip/413.html

For SUSE Linux 10, SLP 9.2, SLP 9.3, NLD 9, SLES9:
http://www.novell.com/coolsolutions/trench/16942.html

There are ways to accomplish the same thing on other platforms just google "mount iso" and you'll find several different methods.

Heath Upton's picture

I always mount ISOs directly

Submitted by Heath Upton (not verified) on 19 April 2006 - 3:28am.

I always mount ISOs directly using a virtual CD/DVD device driver. Works perfectly and saves time having to burn to CD/DVD media. Also, if you're doing a lot of work with VMware, having a stack on ISOs on your hard disk is the way forward.

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