2011/11/6 Sander Lepik <[email protected]>: > 06.11.2011 13:38, Wolfgang Bornath kirjutas: >> >> 2011/11/6 Maarten Vanraes<[email protected]>: >> It may be an option if you have such a DVD I was talking about in >> point 2 - somewhere at the start of the install process you can add an >> additional medium. If a newer package is on the update DVD (or USB key >> or external harddisk) the installer should take this instead of the >> package from the installer DVD) should work with an update DVD or USB >> key. It will not reduce the download but the overall system setup time >> (as you wrote). > > Won't this end up with "Enter updates medium" -> "Enter main medium" -> > "Enter updates medium" -> and so on..
Your question reminded me of my old Schneider 8086, no harddisk, 2 floppy drives. Working with Word for DOS (18 program floppies, 7 driver floppies) meant: one drive was occupied with the OS floppy, the other one was your "DJ turntable". Want to format a character as bold? Insert floppy #8. Continue writing? Enter floppy #4. :) Back to today: it depends on your machine and how you organize things. If you have only one DVD drive, occupied by the installation DVD, you want to put the updates on a USB key (or the other way around). Or use 2 USB keys. My experience of the last 2-3 years say that most people are dumping optical media for installation ISOs more and more in favor of USB media (keys, harddisks). For my netbook (no optical drive) I have a selection of USB keys as install media and a USb harddisk which I could use for the updates. Sometimes the question how hard or how easy something is for you is answered by your way to do it.
