Where are the boot.iso images for the fedora deveolpment repo?

Daniel P. Berrange berrange at redhat.com
Fri Mar 7 20:15:34 UTC 2008


On Fri, Mar 07, 2008 at 03:12:11PM -0500, Jeremy Katz wrote:
> On Fri, 2008-03-07 at 13:51 -0500, Bill Nottingham wrote:
> > Jesse Keating (jkeating at redhat.com) said: 
> > > On Fri, 2008-03-07 at 18:38 +0000, Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
> > > > 
> > > > Do we really have to rename it ?  When doing fullvirtualized installs from
> > > > an ISO using a network URL, our tools look for $URL/images/boot.iso - if it
> > > > gets renamed, then  existing distros won't be able to install F9 in this 
> > > > manner :-(  
> > > 
> > > Yes, as it's different.  It now includes stage2 on it, it was the
> > > rescue.iso but renamed as it does more than just rescue.
> > 
> > It's not significantly different. It's still the only boot iso.
> 
> The name is still open for discussion...  renaming it to make the
> difference clear at first is important, but the virt-inst reason might
> be a good enough one to change it back

Or keep around the 10 MB boot.iso in parallel with netinst.iso. As others
have pointed out the tiny size of boot.iso is nice for bootstrapping
purposes, and give that you still have the separate stage2 file there anyway
an extra 10 MB in the images/ directory will never be noticed.

Dan.
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