On Fri, Feb 10, 2006 at 08:45:01PM +0000, David Laight wrote:
> Actually it is very useful for netbooting an install system (or even
> a rescue system), although the 2.8MB limit doesn't apply then.

Sure, but for a cdboot you wouldn't want it.
We need to provide the unpacked fs contents and the ramdisk-image-inside-kernel
made out of it, which would not even increase build time.

Martin