Dealing with the huge F15 initrd

[Ohad Levy]

On Mon, Apr 11, 2011 at 11:10 AM, Vratislav Podzimek <vpodzime at redhat.com>wrote:

> On Thu, 2011-04-07 at 10:58 -0500, Jason L Tibbitts III wrote:
> > Perhaps this isn't the best list for this question, but I can't really
> > think of any other place to send it.
> >
> > For those that don't know, the F15 installer's initrd is many times
> > larger than that of previous versions.  This is due to the fact that the
> > installer no longer downloads a stage2 image over the net and instead
> > just has everything available from the beginning.  That's all fine and
> > good, but I have many servers that I install by using the web-based
> > admin console to SMB-mount an ISO image containing isolinux and a
> > vmlinuz/initrd pair.  The transfer rate is glacial, and I estimate that
> > it will take well over an hour just to load the initrd that way.  (It
> > takes ten minutes to load the F14 installer, and that's already somewhat
> > painful when trying to do testing.)
> >
> > I cannot use PXE as I do not control the DHCP server.
> >
> > Does anyone have any hints as to how I might be able to do reasonable
> > installs now?  Is there some sort of PXE-like client I could boot from a
> > CD that would let me grab an vmlinuz/initrd pair from a specified
> > location over the network?
> >
> >  - J<
> >
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> Maybe http://boot.fedoraproject.org could be the solution.
> Vrata
>

it just uses gpxe, which allows fetching the files over http.
one could also use gpxelinux and fetch the kernel/initrd over http as well.

Ohad

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