> You're only supposed to go through installing from
> CD/DVD once, then create a Flash(TM) archive and
> install from the network afterwards.

That's great for those of us in a networked, enterprise environment.  For Joe 
R. User installing on his home PC, that's not really an option.

> I have systems installing roughly 4.3GB of data in
> less than 20 minutes, from start to finish using
> Flash(TM) flar archives and NFS.

I've built literally hundreds of systems in a day, thanks to a good JS 
environment with flars and automation.  But that requires another machine to 
act as host and some pretty advanced skills, not something the home user is 
going to have.

There's a lot of room for improvement in the package based install, whether it 
is CD based, DVD based, or even network based (without flash).  Probably one of 
the best improvements would be changing the /var/sadm/install/contents file to 
a database.
-spp
 
 
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