Re: install/40999: installing NetBSD on USB stick is slow

[Manuel Bouyer <bouyer%antioche.eu.org@localhost>]

On Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 11:30:00PM +0000, Christoph_Egger%gmx.de@localhost 
wrote:
> >Number:         40999
> >Category:       install
> >Synopsis:       installing NetBSD on USB stick is slow
> >Confidential:   no
> >Severity:       non-critical
> >Priority:       medium
> >Responsible:    install-manager
> >State:          open
> >Class:          sw-bug
> >Submitter-Id:   net
> >Arrival-Date:   Wed Mar 11 23:30:00 +0000 2009
> >Originator:     Christoph Egger
> >Release:        NetBSD 5.0 RC2
> >Organization:
> >Environment:
> NetBSD 5.0 RC amd64
> >Description:
> 
> Installing NetBSD from CD on USB stick is very slow.
> Particularly, newfs takes very very long to proceed.
> The USB stick LED shows some activity every few minutes.
> 
> >How-To-Repeat:
> 
> Install NetBSD on USB Stick.

that's certainly not enough to repeat; my USB stick works fine on a 5.0_RC2
machine.

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Manuel Bouyer <bouyer%antioche.eu.org@localhost>
     NetBSD: 26 ans d'experience feront toujours la difference
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