installer and stage2.img?

[Ola Thoresen]

On tir, 2006-09-12 at 22:50 -0400, Louis Garcia II wrote:
> On Tue, 2006-09-12 at 21:43 -0400, Jeremy Katz wrote:
> > On Tue, 2006-09-12 at 21:24 -0400, Louis Garcia II wrote:
> > > Is their any reason the installer is split into stage1 and stage2? It
> > > would mean quicker installs over the wire. Their is certainly enough
> > > room on boot.iso. This will help the ftp and http installs and also nfs
> > > since their is no time spent downloading stage2.
> > > 
> > > -Louis
> > 
> > The first stage is loaded into RAM...  so if stage2 were there, we'd
> > balloon the memory requirements accordingly.
> 
> Ok so still have them separate but include stage2 in the boot.iso. Most
> people will do the graphical install and thus will need the bigger memory
> requirements and can skip the time consuming stage2 download. The text 
> install will work the same. I think this is what you meant by balloon
> memory requirements? 


Also for PXE-installs it would be very nice to have stage2 loaded from
the TFTP-server (which is usually "local") instead of the more often
remote mirror for the rest of the packages.

I don't mind waiting a while for the install to finish.  During that
time I can most often do something else. But it is quite annoying to
have to wait several minutes for the download of stage2 just so I can
get started with the installation.


Rgds.

Ola Thoresen