Linked by Thom Holwerda on Thu 23rd Mar 2006 19:14 UTC, submitted by jamesd
An often-heard complaint when it comes to Solaris is that its installation takes a long time. Apparantly, work is under way to fix it. "While in a chatroom this morning I learned the reason why Solaris installs are so slow. It turns out that pkgadd is really slow on installing small packages, well it turns out that Solaris installs about 10000 little packages in a full install."
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2005-07-08
I don't think you understand what a Flash Install is, you take a system that is completely built and you create an archive using flarcreate. You then take that archive and place it on an existing JumpStart server and modify the JumpStart profile for the machine in question to accomodate a Flash Install rather than a JumpStart installation.
In order to do this you need a machine set up as a JumpStart server, this is what I use my Ultra 10 at home for and a Blade 100 at work.