From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/4.08 [en] (X11; I; SunOS 5.8 sun4u; Nav) If you select any packages that require the 2nd CD and don't actually have it when the installer asks for it you cannot finish the installation. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Select a package on 2nd CD and install RH Actual Results: Dialog box asking for 2nd CD does not have option to skip it (and finish installation less any selected packages on disk 2). Expected Results: It would be nice to complete the installation even if you have to leave out any packages selected from disk 2. I assume that no packages on disk 1 have prerequisites on disk 2? Alternatively after the package selection stage it could warn you that both disks will be required so you could go back and remove some packages should you only have disk1 (obviously only people who download images will be in this situation as the boxed sets have both CDs).
No, you should have both cd's. It would be quite complicated to keep track of which packages were skipped by not using the second cd...and then the scripts in the post install would potentially have to change their behavior accordingly. Yuck.