Peter Tribble wrote:

>On Wed, 2006-03-29 at 16:33, Joerg Schilling wrote:
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>>Thomas Maier-Komor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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>>>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)
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>>Sure?
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>>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.
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>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.
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A simple comparison of a network and a DVD based install will show you
where the bottleneck lies...

Ian

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