graphical FTP install

Jeremy Katz katzj at redhat.com
Mon Oct 4 14:37:36 UTC 2004


On Mon, 2004-10-04 at 10:28 -0400, Charles R. Anderson wrote:
> Why do FTP installs still default to text mode?  I noticed that I can
> start a graphical FTP install with a boot parameter "graphical". 
> Considering that the text install can't do LVM, I think it is
> important that we default to graphical.

They default to graphical if you have "enough" RAM (> 128 megs, iirc) to
keep the stage2.img in RAM and do a successful graphical install.
Otherwise, we fall back to text mode.

Also, note that there is (minimal) LVM editing in text mode now.

Jeremy




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