Are you connecting to the Netatalk machine via TCP/IP Appletalk or non
non-tcp/ip appletalk? On my Centris running NetBSD and netatalk, I've
found it gets 165k/sec on the non-tcp connection (this is on 10baseT) and
500k/sec when using tcp/ip appletalk.

chris

On Wed, 24 Oct 2001, Matthew wrote:

> 
> On Wednesday, October 24, 2001, at 10:00  pm, Randy Beaudreault wrote:
> 
> >> On another note, I had some difficulty installing 1.5 on this machine, 
> >> as
> >> the Installer apparently doesn't support partitions greater than 500 
> >> MB. It
> >> will install on a 1 GB or a 2 GB partition, but running fsck after 
> >> booting
> >> shows a terribly corrupted file system. The 1.5.1 Installer shows the 
> >> same
> >> behavior. I ended up creating 500 MB partitions for root, /var, and 
> >> /usr in
> >> order to install, and using the remaining 2.5 GB on the root disk for
> >> nothing in particular. Is this a well-known limitation of the 
> >> Installer?
> >>
> >>
> >> TIA.
> >>
> >> Regards,
> >> -Steve
> >
> > Steve,
> >
> > I don't have much to say about the begining of your mail, but I have 
> > something to say about the last paragraph.  I recently changed the hd 
> > in my Q800 to a 4GB Barracuda and discovered interesting issues when 
> > installing NetBSD on it.  The installer chokes on big installs, > 1GB, 
> > which I overcame by installing using sysinst (the install notes are 
> > available via FTP from Bob Nestor's site: 
> > ftp://murphy.dyndns.org/pub/sysinst/ is the directory).  Next issue I 
> > had was booter problems when I put my partitions on the last half of 
> > the drive under Drive Setup (under OS 8.1).  When I put the partitions 
> > for NetBSD first the booter worked fine.
> 
> Hi,
> 
> Note also that the 1.5.2 release dir has the netbsd-INSTALL.gz kernel, 
> so whilst the one from Bob's site may work, it is preferential to get 
> the one from 
> <ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/NetBSD-1.5.2/mac68k/installation/instkernel/
>  >, since it will probably be newer.
> 
> Take care,
> 
> ~ Matthew
> 
>