On Thu, 2004-04-29 at 17:59 -0400, Matthew Miller wrote: > On Thu, Apr 29, 2004 at 05:53:51PM -0400, Jeremy Katz wrote: > > On Thu, 2004-04-29 at 11:03 -0400, Matthew Miller wrote: > > > I just noticed that the FC2t3 anacoda tries to mount the CDROM before it > > > goes to the network, even if a network install method is given. Is there a > > > good reason for this that I'm overlooking? > > So that you can use a CD with a stage2.img and not have to download it. > > Nice for FTP/HTTP installs as you get the packages over the network but > > don't have the memory overhead of the 70 meg stage2.img in a ramdisk. > > I guess that makes sense. :) > > On the downside, that'd make the net install image not fit on a 30MB > business-card CD. :) No, but it does fit on some of the other small form factor CDs. The rescue CD can be used for this purpose. > I guess it doesn't hurt to have the check there. And it can be quite useful :-) Jeremy
