Where are the boot.iso images for the fedora deveolpment repo?

Jeremy Katz katzj at redhat.com
Fri Mar 7 20:22:01 UTC 2008


On Fri, 2008-03-07 at 15:21 -0500, Jeremy Katz wrote:
> On Fri, 2008-03-07 at 20:15 +0000, Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
> > Or keep around the 10 MB boot.iso in parallel with netinst.iso. As others
> > have pointed out the tiny size of boot.iso is nice for bootstrapping
> > purposes, and give that you still have the separate stage2 file there anyway
> > an extra 10 MB in the images/ directory will never be noticed.
> 
> The entire idea is that we're trying to reduce the number of people who
> are booting and not having the stage2.img detectable.  Because if you
> don't have stage2, then you have to deal with text mode at least for
> some things.  And thus you lose :-)

Also, this lets us start to enable things that people have wanted for a
long time like proxies, mirror lists, etc, etc

Jeremy




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