Most of the time was spent downloading the tarfile and extracting from the USB once the files are download the install completes quickly
-----Original Message----- From: Martin Husemann <mar...@duskware.de> Sent: Friday, March 8, 2024 10:57 AM To: Derrick Lobo <derrick.l...@givex.com> Cc: netbsd-users@netbsd.org Subject: Re: EXT MAIL : Re: USB install is slow On Fri, Mar 08, 2024 at 03:52:15PM +0000, Derrick Lobo wrote: > I ended just untaring the sets and running etcupdate as that was much > quicker Huh? If that was much quicker (you were running the same kernel, from the install image?) - where did the upgrade spend all the additional time? Extracting sets should be the major part, plus a bit of "postinstall" where it hashes all the (new with -10) SSL certificates (and the script doing so is suboptimal). Neither should take even close to 10 minutes on amd64 hardware from the last 10 years or so. Martin
