On Fri, 2008-01-18 at 13:07 -0500, Jesse Keating wrote: > So I have a silly question, and it's ok to tell me I'm dumb, but I was > thinking this morning, why do we still have stage1 vs stage2? Stage1 > is pretty much about getting you stage2, or minstage2 right? And in > most cases where you're not booting from media, you're stuffing one of > those two into ram right? So why can't they be combined and just be > one stage? You don't have the second stage in RAM for NFS installs either. Or booting from the to-be-renamed-rescuecd. And being able to have the second stage _not_ in ram is a pretty big win as the second stage continues to grow with things like fonts, translations, etc. If we were to go to a single stage, we'd need to go on a very serious culling spree or we'd have a substantial hit on our memory requirements. Jeremy _______________________________________________ Anaconda-devel-list mailing list Anaconda-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/anaconda-devel-list
