Installing from Live CD is the new black?

Nicu Buculei nicu_fedora at nicubunu.ro
Mon Dec 15 09:35:02 UTC 2008


Arthur Pemberton wrote:
> 
> Of course it is an important use case. No one is saying DVD installs
> are useless. However if you have the bandwith to dload the DVD image
> yourself, it is a lot more efficient to dload a live CD and install
> from that.

No if:
- you perform the install on more than one machine;
- you download in one location and install on another;
- you want control over the way the download is performed (bittorrent, 
download rate control with gwget etc.)
- you want a downtime as small as possible.

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