[rescue] Oracle making just a little harder to keep old machines in use

Jonathan Groll lists at groll.co.za
Fri May 7 08:05:49 CDT 2010


On Fri, May 07, 2010 at 07:00:48AM -0400, Lionel Peterson wrote:
> Having questioned that casual remark, I will agree that a two day  
> install is nonsense. It is obvious the installer is being expected to do 
> a lot of heavy lifting, which runs counter to Redmond's latest installer 
> design which simply lays down a several Gig system image as if it were a 
> backup system image, almost as one big file that loads very quickly.

Interesting information about Redmond's latest installer. Sadly when I
installed windows 7 I still had to do the triple reboot though, so
they haven't gone beyond that yet.

Cheers,
Jonathan



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