> Seconded. I really love Solaris (now... I've seen the > light!) - but forget > doing DVD installs. I can literally *hear* the drive > spinning up and down > repeatedly. I have no problem when transferring > contiguous files from the > dvd once Solaris is installed, it is almost certainly > something related to > the install/installer/etc. When it takes me less time > to download all 5 > parts of the dvd, cat them together (on a Solaris 10 > machine) and transfer > to a machine with a dvd burner, AND burn the dvd then > it does to simply > install Solaris, something is wrong. Yes, that's > exactly what I did. I > managed to do all that with SX's DVD image while > installing S10U1 on a > relatively fast machine. It's not the drive or the > interface, as I said - > once installed I have no problem reading from dvd's > quite acceptably.
Well -- You're only supposed to go through installing from CD/DVD once, then create a Flash(TM) archive and install from the network afterwards. 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. Bonus: after the system is flashed, it is already configured exactly as the master from which the image was made, and comes with all the SW I installed on the master -- all already preconfigured! This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
