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Date:      Sun, 15 Aug 2010 17:03:35 +0100
From:      Bruce Cran <bruce@cran.org.uk>
To:        Nagilum <nagilum@nagilum.org>
Cc:        svn-src-stable-8@freebsd.org, Bruce Cran <brucec@FreeBSD.org>
Subject:   Re: svn commit: r211007 - stable/8/usr.sbin/sysinstall
Message-ID:  <20100815170335.00000ad0@unknown>
In-Reply-To: <20100807151858.18405yjtkz4ijzks@cakebox.homeunix.net>
References:  <201008071218.o77CIavd036475@svn.freebsd.org> <20100807151858.18405yjtkz4ijzks@cakebox.homeunix.net>

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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



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