Al Hopper wrote: >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. > > > Or stream to the local hard dive. I think the windoze installer does this, then installs from the disk files.
A combination of the two (like /tmp) might be a compromise. Ian _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list [email protected]
