[Test-Announce] Fedora 15 Alpha TC2 Available Now!

Orion Poplawski orion at cora.nwra.com
Tue Feb 15 18:28:18 UTC 2011


On 02/15/2011 10:40 AM, Felix Miata wrote:
> On 2011/02/15 08:36 (GMT-0500) James Laska composed:
>
>> Good-bye install.img, hello initrd.img!
>
>> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Anaconda/Features/UnifiedInitrd
>
>> The installer no longer needs to locate where install.img is (network,
>> DVD, HD).  The content previously included in the stage#2 install.img
>> file, is now included in the initrd.img.
>
> And goodbye to my to my customary installation method of loading installation
> kernel and initrd from my many little 200M /boot partitions that don't have
> room for being made larger. Good thing the two files needn't be located the
> same place, but it makes keeping track of where they are more complex. I
> guess I can use home's root or give home's root an install dir, and put even
> kernel there too. Or, maybe on my user/local partition. Or, on a FAT or NTFS
> partition?!?!?

Hm, yeah, this is going to break koan as well, isn't it for systems with small 
/boot filesystems.


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