On Mon, 2007-09-24 at 03:12 -0400, Louis E Garcia II wrote: > On Sun, 23 Sep 2007 20:15:53 -0400, Jeremy Katz wrote: > > On Sat, 2007-09-22 at 17:20 -0400, Louis E Garcia II wrote: > > > If I placed stage2.img inside the boot.iso from rawhide and burned it > > > would it act like a rescuecd? would the installer find stage2 in the cd > > > instead of downloading it. > > > > If you take a look at /usr/lib/anaconda-runtime/mk-rescueimage, you can > > do basically the exact manipulations. But yeah, the above is basically > > correct > > I know this has been covered before but why is the installer in two stages? > Both stages can fit on a CD easily. The first stage has to be in RAM as an initramfs while the second can just be mounted and used[1] without requiring much of a memory hit. Also, if you're booting the installer via PXE, it helps to minimize the amount you have to download via tftp Jeremy [1] At least, if you're doing an NFS, CD or hard drive install -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
