On Fri, 2008-03-07 at 11:57 -0800, John Reiser wrote: > There is a HUGE difference in size. > The old boot.iso was about 10MB. > The new netinst.iso is about 121MB due to including stage2.img. > > I personally have 4 flash memory devices (16MB, 32MB, 64MB*2) > which I have used in the last year to initiate Fedora installs, > which will be obsoleted by this change. Is PXE the only > small bootstrap method that remains? Not necessarily. We may come up with some utility to drop the kernel and initrd into a flash image. Having boot.iso, diskboot.img and rescue.iso was a ton of duplicate data, so we've moved to just netinst.iso for now, but the kernel and initrd are there for use in other places. -- Jesse Keating Fedora -- All my bits are free, are yours?
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