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Date:      Sat, 16 Nov 2002 10:08:54 -0800
From:      Eric Melville <eric@FreeBSD.org>
To:        "Pedro F. Giffuni" <giffunip@yahoo.com>
Cc:        freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: How big a HD? (automatic settings)
Message-ID:  <20021116100854.A12485@FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: <20021113004319.86099.qmail@web13409.mail.yahoo.com>; from giffunip@yahoo.com on Wed, Nov 13, 2002 at 01:43:19AM %2B0100
References:  <20021113004319.86099.qmail@web13409.mail.yahoo.com>

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> After some advocacy effort, I convinced a friend to try
> FreeBSD and I handed him some old 3.4 CDs I had. He
> attempted to install it on a 600M HD with the surprise that
> the auto settings in sysinstall didn't leave him sufficient
> space on the /usr partition. He was somewhat surprised as
> the CD box actually suggested that much less space was 
> required. He downloaded a 5.0 ISO and found the same
> problem.
> 
> My question is; how much disk space is required to install
> FreeBSD nowadays??

This is a known problem. Unfortunately I don't think it will ever get fixed
because it's an issue where everyone likes to fight about their way being
best. I would expect the disk in question to be enough if the partitions
were sized by hand after looking at an installed system.

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