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I suppose it's a matter of opinion, Scott. But they do offer a few
advantages:
* One has to download the image anyway (unless you send a media
order) so time is not an issue
* If the CD turns out to be bad (been there, done that) you can get
screwed bad
* There is no muckin' around with the CD drive.
It does, obviously, take disk space. I'm sitting at 45% used (with the
images still out there) so for me it's not an issue. For others that
could be important. But that's the only reason that I can think of for
not using image catalogues. Well, besides the fact there's a lot of
twisting and turning in the wind to learn all of the commands.
* Jerry C. Adams
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Scott Klement wrote:
Hi Jerry,
Others are probably going to suggest this, but here goes. I just
created an image catalogue and downloaded them straight into the IFS (a
mapped drive in Windows).
Sorry if this is a dumb question, but... do image catalogs make sense
if you have only one machine to install to? I see people discuss them
frequently on this and other forums, but I really don't understand the
point. Why waste gigabytes of disk space on CD images when you can just
load the PTFs directly from the CD?
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