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

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

The following reply was made to PR install/40999; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Manuel Bouyer <bouyer%antioche.eu.org@localhost>
To: gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost
Cc: install-manager%NetBSD.org@localhost, gnats-admin%NetBSD.org@localhost, 
netbsd-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost
Subject: Re: install/40999: installing NetBSD on USB stick is slow
Date: Thu, 12 Mar 2009 11:35:12 +0100

 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>
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