Subject: Some pkg suggestions
To: None <netbsd-help@netbsd.org>
From: Jarkko Teppo <jarkko@NTT-F4-104-3.techno.uwasa.fi>
List: netbsd-help
Date: 06/28/2000 10:47:02
Hello!

I have a couple of package suggestions:

1. The NetBSD documentation webpages are a nice resource for the
   common questions I usually have and a nice reference in addition
   to the man pages. I know I can mirror them via wget (and probably
   convert links) but it would be nice to have them as a (meta)package.
   My machines are basically never connected to the net, so I'm stuck
   carrying CDs.

2. This a bit trickier: rescue disk(s) with dump, tar, statically linked vi.
   Making this into a package would be a bit difficult, but it would be nice
   to have. Most of the machines I have can't even use a floppy (hp300,vax,
   sparc) but my wintel machines would benefit from this. Okay, I'd be 
   happy with some general instructions on how to build a bootable rescue
   disk :-)

And finally a question: what kind of transfer rates should I expect from
an Adaptec 1542CF (ISA) with a Pentium 100 and ,say , ST31230N ? I'm
getting approx. 1700KB/s with bonnie on block transfers, systat vmstat
normally shows a maximum of 800KB/s. I've never gotten speeds above 2MB/s.
I'd just like to know whether this is expected or if I have some glitches...

TIA,
-- 
Jarkko Teppo
jate@uwasa.fi