Minimizing Disk Space Checking Time

Minimizing Disk Space Checking Time

When you want to install only one product and the distribution source contains many products, you can reduce the amount of space checking time by including the product name when specifying the distribution source. When you specify a product in the distribution source, checking is limited to the disk space requirements of the individual product rather than the entire distribution.

These entries illustrate how to specify an individual product as the distribution source:

# inst -f source/product 
Inst> from source/product 
Inst> from $dist/product

The from command must be entered before a list or step command that triggers disk space checking (the source, product, and $dist arguments are described in "Alternative Ways to Specify a Distribution").