On Wed, 2006-05-10 at 15:26 -0400, Paul Nasrat wrote:
> minstg2 is used for low memory ftp/http installs (or pure text ftp/http
> installs). See the code in loader2/urlinstall.c for the details.
Thanks for the reply, Paul! I am glad to know what its primary purpose
is.
I had been looking at the code in hdinstall.c, where it hunts through a
list of possible stage 2 images:
char *stg2list[] = {"stage2.img", "minstg2.img", NULL};
and so forth.
I suppose it doesn't hurt to be able to recover from an omitted
stage2.img file, but I was surprised to see that the author of
hdinstall.c had even considered the possibility. I was having trouble
understanding when loadHDImages() might be called with a
possibly-missing stage2.img but with minstg2.img available.
--Steven
