[geeks] Dell T105 server arrives

[Nadine Miller]

Joshua Boyd wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 02, 2008 at 01:52:12PM -0400, Shannon Hendrix wrote:
>> On Apr 2, 2008, at 11:29 , Joshua Boyd wrote:
>>
>>> As I understand it, Vista is done in such a way that it is more of an
>>> image copy.  Something along the lines of this process:
>>> 1) dd if=/dev/dvd/baseSystem.img of=/dev/sda1 bs=16k count=196608
>>> 2) Expand the file system on /dev/sda1 to fill the partition
>>> 3) delete unneeded files.
>> Vista's "base install" is huge though, so it makes sense.
>>
>> Most sensible UNIX have tiny base installs.
> 
> I suspect that it would give noticable performance improvements for
> systems like NetBSD.
>  
>> I'm not sure how this would work out for larger UNIX systems like  
>> Ubuntu Linux.  The full image would be gigantic, so I'm pretty sure  
>> that the image and delete approach would be pretty bad in that case.
> 
> Ubuntu isn't that big.  I have a lot a sub 1 gig installs of it.
> 
> Fedora or Solaris OTOH.
> 
> But, like NetBSD, I suspect that an OS that requires over 100 megs would
> benefit from an image based installer.
> 
>> That's an interesting question: could I create 1GB or so NetBSD server  
>> images, and expand FFS after the fact.
> 
> Personally, I don't use NetBSD enough to warrant that.
> 
> However, I would really love to see something like that for Solaris.
> 

Um, Flash Archives?

=Nadine=