120MB bootstrap only?

Matthew Miller mattdm at mattdm.org
Sat Mar 8 04:03:12 UTC 2008


On Fri, Mar 07, 2008 at 11:57:10AM -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.

Note that this isn't as scary as it seems (except in your
very-small-for-today media scenario), because the first thing the old
boot.iso does after getting network info is download that other ~ 111MB. So
this should actually reduce network traffic overall.

I've been doing a similar thing at BU for years with our anaconda build.
We've got a lot of 10bT network still, so saving that extra transfer speeds
things up by a few minutes, too. 

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