install/40999: installing NetBSD on USB stick is slow

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>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.

>Fix: