Bart Smaalders wrote: > Note that %b isn't very useful if the drive is speeding up and slowing > down or seeking. The more interesting question is MB/sec from the dvd > drive during the install. > > - Bart > > If the target disk is large enough (probably is, these days) why not stream the DVD into a file in /tmp (or RAM disk or tmpfs or something like that to avoid physical IO if we have lots of RAM) and lofi mount it, as an optional first step? If you did that while asking the user for the common config settings, it needn't be such a huge drag either.
James
