Stefan Schmiedl wrote:
>
[upgrade problems snipped for brevity] 
> 
> BTW: Why is the installer so much slower than tar -xzvf? For example,
> installing the /usr/share/zoneinfo files takes a *lot* more time.

I think that the Installer uses some kind of SCSI polling routines to
interface with the ufs/ffs partition...well, at any rate, it has to go
thru the MacOS drivers.  This is apparently a lot slower than using the
native BSD SCSI drivers to access the BSD-style partitions.  I rarely use
the installer anymore myself.  It's a lot faster and easier to ftp stuff
from within NetBSD and install it from there (an install of the base
archive takes maybe 5 minutes on one of my IIci's vs. the hour or so using
the Installer).

Later.

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Colin Wood                                 cwood@ichips.intel.com
Component Design Engineer - MD6                 Intel Corporation
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