On Wed, 29 Mar 2006 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> >But the Solaris installer doesn't read the data at that rate. If it
> >got the drive going then it would be fine, but it spends half its
> >time jumping all over the place, and even when doing nothing but reading
> >a simple data stream it's at a very much slower rate. The problem
> >is in the install process being slow, not in how fast the media is.
>
> And it uses the media in a way which is particularly bad for
> DVDs.
What needs to happen is to have the DVD data streamed to a RAM disk (by one
thread) and then have the (stupid) installer run from the RAM disk. Since
its not uncommon to have machines with 1 to 8Gb of RAM these days, the
installer should be able to maximize the use of available RAM.
Regards,
Al Hopper Logical Approach Inc, Plano, TX. [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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