On Thu, Dec 08, 2022 at 02:12:22PM -0600, Chris Adams wrote:
Once upon a time, drago01 <drago01(a)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.
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