Dealing with the huge F15 initrd

Ohad Levy ohadlevy at gmail.com
Thu Apr 7 17:22:33 UTC 2011


On Thu, Apr 7, 2011 at 6:58 PM, Jason L Tibbitts III <tibbs at math.uh.edu>wrote:

> 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

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