Re: Dealing with the huge F15 initrd

Isn't F15 still in alpha? You might wish to raise that concern with
the developers while it is early.

On Thu, Apr 7, 2011 at 1:22 PM, Ohad Levy <[email protected]> wrote:
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> On Thu, Apr 7, 2011 at 6:58 PM, Jason L Tibbitts III <[email protected]>
> wrote:
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>> 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?
>>
> you can use gpxelinux (or gpxe directly) to fetch the files over http.
> you can setup a usb/iso/tftp/whatever image.
> Ohad
>>
>>  - J<
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