I have an LC III running NetBSD/mac68k, and I recently reinstalled NetBSD
to fix a major screw up that I made. Anyway, I've noticed that it takes
quite a long time to install.

My LC III has a 540MB Internal Quantum SCSI drive (pulled out of a
PowerMac 6100), and 12M of RAM. I am installing over an appletalk
share on my FreeBSD/i386 server. It takes a good hour just to get base.tgz
installed. I am running at 10baseT, and my other machine on my personal
subnet takes anywhere from 530kB/sec to 730kB/sec (seems a bit slow
today.)

Anyway, I'd appreciate some insight on why it takes so long.

Cheers,
Sean

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