Comments about documentation
Marc Fonvieille
blackend at FreeBSD.org
Fri Feb 29 08:00:47 UTC 2008
On Thu, Feb 28, 2008 at 02:44:11PM -0500, Michael Richmond wrote:
> In
> http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/install-steps.html
> it says:
>
> "This is the root filesystem. Every other filesystem will be mounted
> somewhere under this one. 128 MB is a reasonable size for this filesystem."
>
> I believe that 128 MB is adequate for FreeBSD 6.3 and lower, but not enough
> for FreeBSD 7.0.
>
> It also recommends 256 MB for /var. This is ample for running FreeBSD, but
> insufficient for installing it.
You're right. I'm working on a fix. For the moment, the best choice for
the user is the use of the automatic partition scheme.
--
Marc
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