[geeks] Dell T105 server arrives

Sridhar Ayengar ploopster at gmail.com
Wed Apr 2 15:51:30 CDT 2008


Joshua Boyd wrote:
>> I'm not sure how this would work out for larger UNIX systems like  
>> Ubuntu Linux.  The full image would be gigantic, so I'm pretty sure  
>> that the image and delete approach would be pretty bad in that case.
> 
> Ubuntu isn't that big.  I have a lot a sub 1 gig installs of it.
> 
> Fedora or Solaris OTOH.
> 
> But, like NetBSD, I suspect that an OS that requires over 100 megs would
> benefit from an image based installer.

I seriously doubt the most basic, usable, functional install of NetBSD 
is quite that large.

Peace...  Sridhar



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