[rescue] Remove power supply, add RAM - you're right...

[Ken Hansen]

Couldn't you always set up install_server to copy the CD-ROm to disk? I
could swear I did that in a Solaric 2.5.1 Admin class years ago...

Ever net install multiple IPCs from a central IPX (whoo-hoo!) with a 2x
CD-ROM? Here's a tip -stagger the installs by a brief period of time (1-2
seconds), they subsequent reads for the following workstations will come
from the disk cache, not cause a new seek on the CD-ROM... We tried this
with three IPCs,andit seemed much faster than if the installs were off by
more than a minute...

Ken

----- Original Message -----
From: "Jonathan Katz" <jon at jonworld.com>
To: <rescue at sunhelp.org>
Sent: Friday, August 17, 2001 11:07 PM
Subject: Re: [rescue] Remove power supply, add RAM - you're right...


> Sometimes to speed up the 'setup_install_server' you can use a
> faster system with a CD-ROM, (you know, your PC w/ that 48X) tar
> up the contents of the CD-ROM and then FTP it over to a temp
> directory on the box where the the server will be (or NFS mount
> that temp directory from a system with more diskspace.) Then the
> 'setup_install_server' is copying disk-to-disk or network-to-disk
> and it's hella faster than that old POS Toshiba XM-5401.



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