> One more question:
> 
> I helped a friend install slackware linux on a 486 box this last
> weekend. The installation process FLEW.  8 - 1.44 floppies DL-> from an
> ftp site and he was up & running in no time.  The question is why does
> it take so long (something like four hours with the man & X11R6) for the
> NetBSDmac68k flavor to install onto the Hard-drive? Not complaining,
> just wondering???

Possably 2 reasons:

1) we need to work on our SCSI drivers. :-)

2) The installer is SLOW. Try cpin'ing the .tgz files (after doing
etc12 and base12 from the installer), booting single user, mounting
/ r/w, and use tar for the install. It's ALOT faster!

Take care,

Bill