I have been trying to find a workaround for the 768MB of RAM requirement of anaconda in F16; I have just 640MB.
I tried setting needed_ram = 0 in /usr/sbin/anaconda in a running install from Fedora-16-i386-netinst.iso. This allowed anaconda to start but after a few screens I eventually ran into the "Error: unsupported locale setting" bug.
So I thought I would look at isolinux/initrd.img to try to find out what was setting lang.
Unfortunately, I cannot parse the file. The command
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xzcat initrd.img | cpio -tdvc | less
returns a listing of files to begin with, which appear to be a stage1 filesystem, and then:-
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:25222 blocks
xzcat: initrd.img: Compressed data is corrupt
I am guessing that stage1 and stage2 are concatenated in some non-standard way so that only stage1 is listed and xzcat cannot handle stage2.
The same command on isolinux/initrd.img from Fedora-15-i386-netinst.iso works fine. That seems to be one big filesystem.
Does anyone know how to get into initrd.img other than by booting the iso?
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