Pierre Fortin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Guillaume Cottenceau wrote:
> >
> > Try it with Redhat you'll have the same problem. Graphical installers eat
> > memory. (much). sorry. So do higher-level language installers such as Perl
> > or Python-based.
>
> Not convinced this is the real answer (I reported this as bug#691)...
> ftp fails and nfs works... so it would seem that the real issue is one
> of file transfer with local storage vs remote file access with its
> inherent remote storage.
Maybe if you read the messages you would have understood the reason of the
problem: with FTP install we have to use a ramdisk it's mandatory (FTP
cannot abstract a filesystem, as NFS can, so execing the second stage on
FTP is impossible)
We can't do some local storage at this step where we don't have any
available partition.
> This begs the question: for such installs, if a swap partition is
> available, would it not make sense to use it for ftp installs (maybe as
> a temporary ext2 fs if that would help)...?
A /tmp partition would be better, but it's a bit of work anyway.
People with enough bandwidth to do an FTP install can either burn an ISO
or download to do an ISO or HD install..
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Guillaume Cottenceau -- Distribution Developer for MandrakeSoft
http://us.mandrakesoft.com/~gc/
