120MB bootstrap only?

seth vidal skvidal at fedoraproject.org
Fri Mar 7 20:07:41 UTC 2008


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





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