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On Mon, Mar 29, 2010 at 17:32, Kirk Goins <kirkgoins@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
doing the upgrade. This upgrade is time sensitive and the less time I spend
the better. So would it be faster to come from the DVD's directly minimizing
the Disk I/O?

From my experience, the DVDs are still slower. I did a few DVD
upgrades on systems sized exactly as you said, because there wasn't
enough space for the image catalogs, and also on some where there was.
The problem is that the DVDs are not optimized - the data can't be
read sequentially by the install process, the DVD drive is seeking
constantly, which is WAY slower than hard drives.

If IBM had optimized the DVD for installation, it's quite possible
that it would be faster than when using image catalogs. As such, your
only critera should be free space - if there's enough for image
catalogs, go with them.


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