F10A boot.iso bug?

[Jerry Williams]

I can see that if this becomes Red Hat 6 it is going to be a pain, since I
do a lot of remote stuff.  And as of yet haven't been able to get control of
PXE on a large network.
So what I need is something like the PXE boot only an iso that I can boot
from and just give it a ks file on the command line.

I wouldn't say get rid of the 104Mb boot.iso, but I would like it to be a
little more obvious as to what it is doing and where is getting the install
from.  Most of the time I have a local network source and it might be nice
to be able to tell it to use it.

But I would also like some kind very small boot.iso that maybe is called
ksboot.iso that is only intended to be given a ks file and that is it.

Jerry Williams

> -----Original Message-----
> From: fedora-test-list-bounces at redhat.com [mailto:fedora-test-list-
> bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of Mike Chambers
> Sent: Friday, August 08, 2008 4:10 AM
> To: For testers of Fedora Core development releases
> Subject: RE: F10A boot.iso bug?
> 
> On Thu, 2008-08-07 at 23:03 -0600, Jerry Williams wrote:
> 
> > So what is the deal with boot.iso?  It is like 104M which is much
> > bigger than 7-9Mb that Red Hat 5 or Fedora 8 is.
> 
> The new boot.iso now contains the stage2.img or whatever, which is why
> it's a lot bigger.
> 
> > And it doesn't give me an option to do an NFS or URL install, so I am
> > guessing that it does the install over the network?
> 
> Yep, noticed that too.  But you now select which way to do the install
> about 3/4 way through it or so.  It will initially start by having http
> type install but you can select cd/dvd, nfs, whatever and put a checkmark
> next to the repositories that you want to use to select packages from.
> 
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