Dealing with the huge F15 initrd

Terry McIntyre terry.mcintyre at gmail.com
Thu Apr 7 18:30:19 UTC 2011


Isn't F15 still in alpha? You might wish to raise that concern with
the developers while it is early.

On Thu, Apr 7, 2011 at 1:22 PM, Ohad Levy <ohadlevy at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
> 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
>>
>>  - J<
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