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On Sun, Jul 05, 2009 at 12:38:34AM +0100, Ian J Hart typed:
> 
> I just had an installworld fail due to this (/rescue).
> 
> Given that many people will have chosen the default root size offered  
> by sysinstall a different build default would seem prudent.
> 
> In any case sysinstall needs to be updated (1GB?). Let's not put off  
> new users anymore than we have to.

The default root partition created by sysinstall (provided the disk is large
enough) is 512 MB, which is more than enough.

#define ROOT_DEFAULT_SIZE               512

Ruben