[K12OSN] ISOs for DVDs

Eric Harrison eharrison at mail.mesd.k12.or.us
Sat Nov 13 18:46:54 UTC 2004


On Sat, 13 Nov 2004, dale wrote:

> I haven't tried it myself. You might also consider copying the files to an nfs 
> or http server and doing a network install with the boot.iso disc.  I haven't 
> timed it, but network installs over 1Gb network seem faster than the cd/dvd 
> method.

As someone who does *lots* of installs, I can tell you that network installs
over 100Mb networks are faster than cd/dvd installs. This assumes the
network is not congested or the FTP/HTTP server is not overloaded, of
course.

At work, I do all the installs right off the k12linux.mesd.k12.or.us 
server ;-)

-Eric




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