>AFAIR, Solaris express does install quite nicely on a dual Opteron machine. >IIRC, then it seems that one CPU does the bzip2 -d while the other one runs >the filesystem and the install process. I believe that my last installation from DVD did take only a bit more than 30 minutes. > >BTW: I get 6 MB/s from bzip2 -d on a 1600 Mhz Opteron. 2600 MHz Opteron should >give 10 MB/s.
But on such systems, the file system can do 60MB/s gzip can match that. And on slower systems, bzip2 is unusably slow. Casper _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list [email protected]
