>...
>given machine and no time to repartition.  The primary advantage of small
>roots, in the old days, was that you could boot off tape, read a quick root
>filesystem and be up and going on a disk quickly.  Now, with the advent of
>...

just for hysterical reference, the old sunos 4.1.3 default
installation did just that: gave you a really small root partition.
it was about 15 megs.  which dosn't fit much of anything except what
it absolutely positively needs.  god help you if your aliases database
or password files got too large.

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