-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Mark Watts wanted us to know:
>Why _do_ we have a limit at all? At this stage of the install (ie very early, the kernel just booted), there is no idea of how the user will want to set up the disk or disks. The installer needs to load tons of stuff but there's nowhere to temporarily store it, so it creates a ramdisk and uncompresses it all into that ramdisk. When it's expanded, it takes up a lot of RAM. So you ask, why not just run it directly off the CD? Well that could be done but then you would not be able to install anything from disk 2 or 3 because you would not be able to eject disk 1 because it's running from it. - -- Blue skies... Todd | Get a bigger hammer! | What does IIRC mean? | | http://www.mrball.net | --OpenLDAP Mailing List | | http://faq.mrball.net | | Linux kernel 2.4.19-24mdk 4 users, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux) Comment: http://www.mrball.net/todd.asc iD8DBQE/L8pOIBT1264ScBURAo94AKCEs/SowHCSgNR+KHBSZzbb0BnW5gCeIqfl k8AkZ+BFTXMjed1yl1Ra/IA= =B6DM -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
