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Date: Fri, 29 Feb 2008 08:46:48 +0100
From: Marc Fonvieille <blackend@FreeBSD.org>
To: Michael Richmond <Michael.A.Richmond@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