On Wed, 2004-05-26 at 12:21 -0400, James_Martin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > anaconda-devel-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx wrote on 05/26/2004 11:31:12 AM: > > On Wed, 2004-05-26 at 10:20 -0400, James_Martin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > > There are significant space considerations that make this difficult (you > > have to have sshd which then requires a whole pile of stuff like SSL, > > glibc, PAM, kerberos) and that seriously bloats the memory requirements > > since those have to be in the initrd. The telnet implementation is dirt > > simple and completely contained within the loader and thus doesn't have > > any of those problems. > > Hmm... I thought this sort of thing could be stuffed into the stage2.img, > not the initrd. But still I can see how memory would be a problem. Putting it in stage2.img doesn't help -- that's too late. It needs to be in the initrd so that you can get to the second stage. > > > having anaconda prompt for network > > > information during kickstart even if you are doing a CD install. > > > > This exists, put network --query in your ks.cfg > > Could've sworn I've tried that before.. I take it that didn't make it in > RHEL3QU2? This has been present for ages. I won't completely rule out the possibility of it bitrotting, though Jeremy
