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On Sat, Jan 23, 2010 at 01:23:28AM +0000, Adrian Wontroba typed:
> I concur that the 235 MB size of an amd64 8.0 kernel is a bit of a
> surprise. An i386 kernel is a mere 135 MB.  IMO increasing the sysinstall
> default root slice size for at least amd64 would be a good thing.

To be a little more precise: it's not the >kernel< that is so big. It's all the 
(mostly not needed) modules and symbol files that fill up /