installer and stage2.img?

[Jeremy Katz]

On Tue, 2006-09-12 at 21:24 -0400, Louis Garcia II wrote:
> Is their any reason the installer is split into stage1 and stage2? It
> would mean quicker installs over the wire. Their is certainly enough
> room on boot.iso. This will help the ftp and http installs and also nfs
> since their is no time spent downloading stage2.

The first stage is loaded into RAM...  so if stage2 were there, we'd
balloon the memory requirements accordingly.

You can use the rescue CD to do an install from a network source while
having both stages of the install on a CD

Jeremy