On Sat, 10 Feb 2001, Bob Nestor wrote:

> One thing to keep in mind is that
> since the Installer can't deal with the BSD 4.3 type filesystem you don't
> have the option of using it and the mini-shell to solve the inode problem
> if it happens.  So I think it's still prudent to use a separate small
> root if you're installing with sysinst.  Multiple filesystems with
> sysinst aren't nearly as difficult to implement for the new user as they
> are with the Mkfs/Installer installation method.

I agree, in principle, but "small" is relative. I like to have about a
~250M root. One nice thing about that, is that you can put the whole
base system on it, which gives you decent environment (including grep,
termcap.db) to get bootstrapped with.


Frederick