120MB bootstrap only?

[Till Maas]

On Fri March 7 2008, 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

livecd-iso-to-disk from Fedora 7 still[1] can be used for this. I did not test 
whether or not newer version (if there are any) cannot do this anymore.

Regards,
Till

[1] 
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-list/2008-January/msg01504.html
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