On Mon, 2 Jun 2003, Patrick Devine wrote:
> Yes, I looked at that, but it could easily store it on a ram disk.
> The RPMs themselves would still need to be transferred seperately, but
> this is an SMOC, and not a real technical limitation.
The stage 2 image is rather too large, and it would kick the
minimum required ram up 'wayyy too high for many.
I am sure that a patch testing ram present, and deciding if
it is more than say 128 M more than the size of the biggest one:
[herrold@ftp loop]$ ls -l `find -name '*img' | grep sta | \
grep -v image ` | awk {'print $5" "$9'}
2704029 ./ftpinstall/1/dosutils/autoboot/initrd.img
2704029 ./ftpinstall/1/isolinux/initrd.img
10170368 ./ftpinstall/1/RedHat/base/hdstg2.img
10502144 ./ftpinstall/1/RedHat/base/netstg2.img
64114688 ./ftpinstall/1/RedHat/base/stage2.img
[herrold@ftp loop]$
and if so unblocking the 'text only' notice would be welcome
at Bugzilla.
IANAHNBARHE. Integration and payback for doing so seem low
except for niche installer users, though, and it may not get
integrated, given the drastic changed in Anaconda each cycle.
-- Russ Herrold
