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Cc: svn-src-stable-8@freebsd.org, Bruce Cran <brucec@FreeBSD.org>
Subject: Re: svn commit: r211007 - stable/8/usr.sbin/sysinstall
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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