On Thu, Dec 08, 2022 at 02:12:22PM -0600, Chris Adams wrote: > Once upon a time, drago01 <drag...@gmail.com> said: > > Again there is no reason why everything on the disk image had to be loaded > > into memory in the first place. Same way when you boot your installed > > system, not everything on disk is loaded into memory. If you don't need the > > firmware, it should stay on the install media and never be loaded into > > memory. > > That only works for cases where there is local install media. Network > installs require downloading and image and running it from RAM.
That's not really true as long as the web server supports random access and/or you use NBD or NFS root. Rich. -- Richard Jones, Virtualization Group, Red Hat http://people.redhat.com/~rjones Read my programming and virtualization blog: http://rwmj.wordpress.com nbdkit - Flexible, fast NBD server with plugins https://gitlab.com/nbdkit/nbdkit _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@lists.fedoraproject.org Do not reply to spam, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/new_issue
