[geeks] How low can you go...

[der Mouse]

>> Just out of curiosity, how did you get the OS on the system - stiffy
>> disks?
> I had to mount the disk in an other computer.  The laptop has no
> network, I have no PCMCIA network card and I am surely not going to
> install via floppies or SLIP / PPP / PLIP.

9600 baud SLIP is about 960 bytes/sec.  A back-of-the-envelope
calculation says that at that rate an install of recent NetBSD would
finish overnight.

This strikes me as slow but by no means out of the question - and many
machines will have higher baud rates available.

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