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.
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Chris Adams <linux(a)cmadams.net>