Date: Tue, 17 Aug 2010 22:16:08 +0200 From: Nagilum <nagilum@nagilum.org> To: Bruce Cran <bruce@cran.org.uk> Cc: svn-src-stable-8@freebsd.org Subject: Re: svn commit: r211007 - stable/8/usr.sbin/sysinstall Message-ID: <20100817221608.25791br7500cllvs@cakebox.homeunix.net> In-Reply-To: <20100815170335.00000ad0@unknown> References: <201008071218.o77CIavd036475@svn.freebsd.org> <20100807151858.18405yjtkz4ijzks@cakebox.homeunix.net> <20100815170335.00000ad0@unknown>
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Right, ppl having / as zfs probably wont use sysinstall.
Having /boot below the BIOS limit is obviously useful for being able
to boot FreeBSD however.
But I guess in those cases a few hundred megs aren't really important.
Thanks for the reply..
----- Message from bruce@cran.org.uk ---------
Date: Sun, 15 Aug 2010 17:03:35 +0100
From: Bruce Cran <bruce@cran.org.uk>
Subject: Re: svn commit: r211007 - stable/8/usr.sbin/sysinstall
To: Nagilum <nagilum@nagilum.org>
Cc: svn-src-stable-8@freebsd.org, Bruce Cran <brucec@FreeBSD.org>
> On Sat, 07 Aug 2010 15:18:58 +0200
> Nagilum <nagilum@nagilum.org> wrote:
>
>> I'm not so sure about the minsize for /
>> /boot is not too unlikely to end up on a separate partition (ie. if
>> the BIOS has trouble accessing / or the system was set up with ZFS
>> as rootfs before zfsloader) and the rest would fit just fine in 128MB:
>
> I hadn't considered having /boot be on a separate partition - but if
> the system was setup before zfsloader then why would they be using
> sysinstall to create / ? Also, is it likely that people would create
> just /boot below the BIOS limit?
>
> --
> Bruce Cran
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