On Tue, 2007-03-06 at 18:43 +0100, Pierre Bourgin wrote:
Hello,
I confirm the 6 MB barrier for file transmitted via TFTP.
I don't know if this limitation comes from yaboot or the Apple's
OpenFirmware.
I was finally abble to launch the installation of the FC6 from the
network thanks to yaboot/TFTP by reducing the ramdisk.image.gz file from
6.2 MB to 5.3 MB.
In details, I unpacked ramdisk.image.gz and removed some drivers I do
not need from its modules/modules.cgz file (qlogic / hba drivers, JFS
and XFS support) and upated configuration files in modules/ .
Does Fedora project plan to provide ramdisk.image.gz < 6 MB in the future ?
The plan is to rewrite the malloc implementation in yaboot to cope with
bigger images, there are some patches out there - it needs some
co-ordinated testing.
Would you be happy to help the testing?
Paul