120MB bootstrap only?

[Jesse Keating]

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
rescue.iso was a ton of duplicate data, so we've moved to just
netinst.iso for now, but the kernel and initrd are there for use in
other places.

-- 
Jesse Keating
Fedora -- All my bits are free, are yours?
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