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Re: Prepared file system for machines with little RAM ?



On Mon, Feb 16, 2004 at 03:50:10PM +0200, Anton Zinoviev wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> The installers of the other distributions usually mount a prepared
> file system from the cdrom.  Thats why they don't have this >32MB ram
> problem that we have.  It seams to me that we can easy do something
> similar for our installer.

This would also be usefull in the case where the cdrom initrd is too big
to be builtin the kernel. This limitation stops us from using anything
else than the netboot initrd on powerpc/chrp and powerpc/chrp-rs6k,
don't really know about prep though.

Friendly,

Sven Luther



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