Peter Tribble <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > 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.
OK, I was remembering a test that I did run 1-2 years ago when I did unpack
an uncompressed tar archive of a 4 GB system to a hard disk.
This could be done from DVD (using star) in less than 10 minutes.
Jörg
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