Will Murnane wrote: > On Thu, Jul 3, 2008 at 12:05, Dennis Clarke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> doesn't this achieve the same effect ? > Not exactly, for this reason: >> XFER (MB) >> 1334.65/1334.65 > Downloading 1.3 gigabytes of updates isn't a problem for me, but for > users with unstable or slow internet connections, it is. Not to > mention, if you have more than one machine, you need to download the > updates on each individually (unless ofc I'm missing something). > >> so .. why drop another ISO if the process works as expected ? > Downloading things once instead of many times is nice. With Debian, I > can set up a local package proxy and fetch things only once, but I > don't think there's anything like that for OpenSolaris yet. A general > proxy like Squid would probably work, but compared to the ease of > apt-cacher or approx it's a little trickier to deal with.
Does the liveCD offer that feature (ie a set of up-to-date packages to be installed like that)? Michael -- Michael Schuster http://blogs.sun.com/recursion Recursion, n.: see 'Recursion' _______________________________________________ indiana-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/indiana-discuss
