David J. Orman wrote: >>A simple comparison of a network and a DVD based install will show you >>where the bottleneck lies... >> >> > >I'm not exactly sure what the point of your mail was. Either you are >saying the issue is the DVD medium/hardware itself and not the installer, >or you're saying you agree that the installer is flawed. > > > I'm saying the installer isn't well matched to the medium.
That's why an install over a 100Mb network, which has about the same throughput an a DVD drive, is significantly faster when the image is on the install server's hard drive. >If you meant the dvd medium/hardware is at fault, then why can most other >OS's be installed off a dvd at much quicker rates, some with more data? >It's about optimizing the installer for the medium. This has been rehashed >(along with potential solutions) a half dozen times, so I won't go over >all the issues once again. Needless to say, it's not that DVDs/drives >themselves are flawed, it's that the installer needs to be intelligent >enough to be efficient while operating from DVD medium. That, and the disk >image needs to be optimized to work efficiently as well. > >If you were agreeing, cool. :) > > > I am. Ian. _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list [email protected]
