/boot is full after running "make installkernel" on

[Jerry McAllister]

On Tue, Jul 06, 2010 at 05:02:54PM -0700, Bill Tillman wrote:

> 
> Thanks guys.
> 
> :-)
> 
> Doesn't that seem odd that the "default" partition size for root
> (512M) isn't quite big enough?

Things change slowly.
I think only a short while ago the default was 256 MB or even 128 MB.

> 
> Should I make the partition size slightly larger (on future installs)
> to eliminate this problem?

Of course, make it whatever size you need and can afford.

////jerry

> 
> Ed
> 
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> I had the same problem and since my drives are large I just started making all my new builds with / set for 1G. As I understand it this is not actually the solution the "in the know" folks recommend. I was advised to just delete kernel.old. Of course this will work but what about when you might need kernel.old to get you out of a jamb or just want to keep it for nostalgia.
>  
> I think I'm finally at the point where I will stop doing make buildworlds unless absolutely needed. I've been keen on doing this regularly but I really should adopt the policy of if it ain't broken don't fix it.
> 
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