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Re: loader/stage2 interaction



John Reiser wrote:
Chris Lumens wrote:

- Part of the last one... we should copy the stage2 image out of its
  initial location.  My reasoning for this is still that it makes
  error handling easier when the repo has trouble.  This requires
  making the repo editor more useful too.

  Problem:  This increases the memory requirements, which no one likes.

Small is good, but which specific memory requirements are we talking about?

I was thinking ramdisk. If one boots off CD or a hdd or a USB disk, there's something approaching a real disk (at least) for stage2. If you want the ability to remove the boot medium, then that has to be stored somewhere else.

The target disk would be nice, but that's not (reliably) available until partitioning and filesystem layout is done.



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