[geeks] Solaris resiliency to crashing w/full root partition?

[Phil Stracchino]

Jonathan C. Patschke wrote:
> [1] My favorite example (prior to the Solaris installer becoming a
>      Java abomination) is the installer for the Sun Work^WStu^WONE
>      compiler suite.  Try installing v6 on an Ultra 1E or an Ultra 2 with
>      a healthy amount of memory.  If you install -everything-, it'll take
>      an hour or so.  If you drop to the command prompt and do yes |
>      pkgadd -d /cdrom/cdrom0/Product all, it takes about 6 minutes.  But,
>      oooh, the Java installer is portable, so I can install my
>      Solaris/SPARC compiler suite on...oh, right.


*grin*

Yeah, I've seen that kind of stupid before .....


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