Date: Fri, 29 Feb 2008 08:46:48 +0100 From: Marc Fonvieille <blackend@FreeBSD.org> To: Michael Richmond <Michael.A.Richmond@nasa.gov> Cc: doc@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Comments about documentation Message-ID: <20080229074648.GA1063@gothic.blackend.org> In-Reply-To: <47C70F0B.9010205@nasa.gov> References: <47C70F0B.9010205@nasa.gov>
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On Thu, Feb 28, 2008 at 02:44:11PM -0500, Michael Richmond wrote: > In > http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/install-steps.html > it says: > > "This is the root filesystem. Every other filesystem will be mounted > somewhere under this one. 128 MB is a reasonable size for this filesystem." > > I believe that 128 MB is adequate for FreeBSD 6.3 and lower, but not enough > for FreeBSD 7.0. > > It also recommends 256 MB for /var. This is ample for running FreeBSD, but > insufficient for installing it. You're right. I'm working on a fix. For the moment, the best choice for the user is the use of the automatic partition scheme. -- Marc
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