initrd explosion?

[Jeremy Katz]

On Sat, 2008-02-02 at 04:55 -0800, Andrew Farris wrote:
> Gary Thomas wrote:
> > What's happened to the initrd image in rawhide?
[snip]
> > Everything else seems in line, it's just initrd that seems
> > a bit excessive.  n.b. this system runs on my big boxes, but fails
> > to even start on my 192MB ThinkPad :-(
> >   https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=431305
>
> That initrd is probably built from the kernel compiles that caused 2.6.24-9 to 
> be a 200mb kernel.  Its being looked into, see threads on -devel.

Yep, that's exactly it.  In general, the installer images are built
entirely of the packages which exist in a given tree

Jeremy