Peter Tribble wrote: >On Wed, 2006-03-29 at 16:33, Joerg Schilling wrote: > > >>Thomas Maier-Komor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> >> >>>So I thought about in what parts of Solaris the Slowaris image is still >>>valid. Especially, where does the system give a bad impression that might be >>>valid, but is not applicable to Solaris in general. I have come up with the >>>following points: >>>- default DVD based install process (slow) >>> >>> >>Sure? >> >> >... > > >>Maybe, your DVD drive is not very dast or you have other problems. >>With a decent drive and a clean media, you should see speeds starting at >>aprox. 9MB/s going to more than 20 MB/s. >> >> > >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. > > > A simple comparison of a network and a DVD based install will show you where the bottleneck lies...
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