But that implies also loading all possible drivers during the install, etc.;
but during the install? That's a disaster waiting to happen, not to mention
a waste of memory (especially since you'd have to do it before swap space
has been established).
| Furthermore, it will then be possible to do a zero reboot install on those
| computers (those=ones that end up using the same as install)..
+--->8
That one doesn't impress me much, because
(1) / is on a ramdisk, not the hard drive, during the install... and we've
already done the initrd thing so we can't use the initrd root hack again.
(2) it wouldn't apply to my installs anyway --- I have to deal with little
things such as AFS.
-- brandon s. allbery [os/2][linux][solaris][japh] allbery@kf8nh.apk.net system administrator [WAY too many hats] allbery@ece.cmu.edu electrical and computer engineering KF8NH carnegie mellon university
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