Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote:
> On Sun, Oct 17, 2021 at 3:36 PM Chris Murphy <lists@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
>>
>> On Sat, Oct 16, 2021, 10:01 PM Kevin Kofler via devel
>> <devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>
>>> The Fedora 34 netinst image is still 450 times the size of a floppy!
>>
>> The top two reasons for this: a significant portion of anaconda used to
>> be downloaded, and now is included on the media; linux-firmware bloat,
>> which is the fastest growing package for the past few years. Front this
>> point there's a bunch of pressure points and trade-offs. This cycle we
>> were over CD-ROM size of 700MiB, and ended up trimming out about 30M from
>> linux-firmware.
>
> It's also X based with GUI's, rather than an ncurses based graphical
> interface.
IIRC, the boot floppy was actually able to boot into graphical Anaconda,
which (including all its dependencies, such as X11) had to be either located
on the HDD (early releases used an exploded file tree, later ones an ISO
file) or downloaded (netinstall).
Kevin Kofler
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