Re: memory usage and stage2= ??

[Jeremy Katz <katzj redhat com>]

On Fri, 2008-03-21 at 00:14 -0500, Jerry Vonau wrote:
> How is stage2= suppose to work? For the hdinstall.c in the patch,
> if you give "anything" as stage2= then the installer looks for 
> /mnt/isodir/images/stage2.img to loopback mount, then still looks in the 
> user given iso directory. Kind of like an override for the stage2 on the 
> iso, as a bonus if you can't find stage2, backing out clears the flag, 
> and will look to the iso for stage2. At least you could have an install 
> tree, like a nfs install with a bit of work. Maybe an "boot.iso-2-usb
> drive" could work now? (It does...)
> 
> I thought the whole idea of having stage2 available was to cut down on 
> memory usage. Any reason to copy stage2 to /tmp? for hd nfs cdrom 
> installs? didn't think so... then here is a patch...

Mostly a matter of "haven't gotten around to fixing up to use it from
where it is again" yet.  Chris was going to look at it, so I'll make
sure to bug him about these patches tomorrow.  

Jeremy