On 12/6/06, Kyle McDonald <Kyle.McDonald at bigbandnet.com> wrote: > The speed of flash archives is nice when you need to take the machine > down. But with LU it's really irrelevant. If I can do the Jumpstart > while the machine is up, and reboot, I care alot less how long the > install takes, and the administrative overhead savings of not managing > the library of flar files is an even bigger win! >
If you don't have an abundance of machines and you can not do an "upgrade", having live upgrade able to do an initial install without a flar would be very helpful. While maybe not the most common situation, the last time I needed to install my crusty old machine that didn't have a DVD drive (and I refuse to feed it CD's for several hours), I had to some really ugly stuff. http://mgerdts.blogspot.com/2006/08/install-solaris-from-dvd-image-on-disk.html I have had real needs to do this when I needed to install Solaris on a machine that is in a location that is both distant from me (impractical to insert a CD/DVD) and lacks network boot capabilities (no Jumpstart servers on subnet, no DHCP forwarders, wanboot not available in firmware/remote jumpstart servers). Mike -- Mike Gerdts http://mgerdts.blogspot.com/
