On Friday 17 March 2006 02:50, "Jeff Spaleta" <jspaleta@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > install at the same time, the boot.iso is "small" so i just have it > sitting on the harddrive ready to be pushed to a new blank cdr if I > need to do a spur-of-the-moment install at work. But since I'm not http://www.coker.com.au/bonnie++/zcav/results.html One thing I have been considering is making boot/rescue CDs with the data in question at the end of the disc. At the above URL I have a graph of performance of linear reads of a CD that show the last blocks of the disc as being read in half the time that the first blocks are read. It seems likely to me that a CD-ROM with the rescue data being on the last 70M of the disk would give better boot times than one with the rescue data on the first 70M (this could be significant if you want to install many machines). Also when reading in a drive that does both CD-ROM and DVD I found a DVD disk to be considerably faster. So if you have some machines to install which all have DVD drives then using a DVD-RW for boot.iso will give the best results. -- http://www.coker.com.au/selinux/ My NSA Security Enhanced Linux packages http://www.coker.com.au/bonnie++/ Bonnie++ hard drive benchmark http://www.coker.com.au/postal/ Postal SMTP/POP benchmark http://www.coker.com.au/~russell/ My home page -- fedora-test-list mailing list fedora-test-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-test-list