Subject: Re: Rototil of sysinst partitioning code
To: current-users <current-users@netbsd.org>
From: leam <leam@reuel.net>
List: current-users
Date: 06/04/2003 21:03:36
My problem was that /usr did not have nearly enough inodes to install
/usr/src and /usr/pkgsrc. I had to re-build the partitions from scratch.
I'm using -current on sparc64.
ciao!
leam
David Laight wrote:
> I've just commited a rototil of the sysinst code that asks for the
> sizes of the netbsd partitions.
>
> After earlier discussions I've defaulted to 128MB of swap and
> all the rest of the space in "/".
>
> The default sizes will be different to what they were before.
> In particular I didn't want to change the size of "/" if "/usr"
> is created (it gets hard to know whether the size of "/" had
> already been set - the code is complicated enough as it is!)
>
> The next plan is to do something similar to the partition table
> editor and the mbr table editor - but a bit of feedback would be nice.
>
> David
>