On Fri, 2008-03-07 at 15:03 -0500, Jesse Keating wrote: > 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. And coming up with 128M flash device should be fairly straightforward. -sv -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
