>[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. > >Could you be a bit more specific please?
each package contains a large file and quite a few small files; so there are more seeks than necessary. And to finish it all of is bzip2; bzip2 is nowhere near fast enough to keep the DVD spun up. Casper _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list [email protected]
