On Thursday, July 16 2009, Yanko Kaneti said: > On Thu, 2009-07-16 at 10:05 -0400, Jeremy Katz wrote: > > On Thursday, July 16 2009, Dan Hor?k said: > > > I don't know about a simple way to start a network installation of > > > Fedora from USB stick. Creating of boot.img, that server that purpose, > > > was stopped by rel-engs some releases ago. I have found a blog post [1] > > > that makes possible to transform a boot.iso image into a bootable USB > > > stick. But it still requires to download the 200+ MB large boot.iso file > > > and do it by hand, while in theory only initrd.img and vmlinuz files > > > should be needed and the whole process could be automated > .. > > > > Note that while kernel + initrd is all you "need", not having the stage2 > > means we have to ask where to find it rather than being able to automate > > the use of the mirror list for everything > > Anything in particular that prevents the loader from using the mirror > list to find a suitable location for stage2 ? ..other than "no patches > for it yet" No patches and it's probably not worth the effort -- having stage2 on media also helps a lot with memory usage as we're not shoving stage2 into memory Jeremy -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
