Date: Wed, 19 Jul 1995 11:32:33 -0700 From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> To: terry@cs.weber.edu (Terry Lambert) Cc: hsu@cs.hut.fi (Heikki Suonsivu), jmacd@freefall.cdrom.com, freebsd-hackers@freefall.cdrom.com Subject: Re: What people are doing with FBSD Message-ID: <1939.806178753@time.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 19 Jul 1995 11:42:13 MDT." <9507191742.AA28329@cs.weber.edu>
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> Something on the order of "I see you have 800MB of disk available; how > much is mine to use?" and "You have 32MB of memory; the minimum amount > of swap you probably want because you chose to install X is 48MB; is > this OK?" and finally "You have XXX MB left; I recommend AAA MB for > the system and add-ons and the rest (BBB MB) for your files, etc. Is > this OK with you?". This has long been envisioned as the "express install" option, where the installer looks around your system and tries to figure out the most optimum setup. The only problem is that doing this right for all the configuration types is hard, so I haven't done it yet. :-) Jordan
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