On tir, 2006-09-12 at 22:50 -0400, Louis Garcia II wrote: > On Tue, 2006-09-12 at 21:43 -0400, Jeremy Katz wrote: > > On Tue, 2006-09-12 at 21:24 -0400, Louis Garcia II wrote: > > > Is their any reason the installer is split into stage1 and stage2? It > > > would mean quicker installs over the wire. Their is certainly enough > > > room on boot.iso. This will help the ftp and http installs and also nfs > > > since their is no time spent downloading stage2. > > > > > > -Louis > > > > The first stage is loaded into RAM... so if stage2 were there, we'd > > balloon the memory requirements accordingly. > > Ok so still have them separate but include stage2 in the boot.iso. Most > people will do the graphical install and thus will need the bigger memory > requirements and can skip the time consuming stage2 download. The text > install will work the same. I think this is what you meant by balloon > memory requirements? Also for PXE-installs it would be very nice to have stage2 loaded from the TFTP-server (which is usually "local") instead of the more often remote mirror for the rest of the packages. I don't mind waiting a while for the install to finish. During that time I can most often do something else. But it is quite annoying to have to wait several minutes for the download of stage2 just so I can get started with the installation. Rgds. Ola Thoresen -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
