Re: CVS commit: src

[Izumi Tsutsui <tsutsui%ceres.dti.ne.jp@localhost>]

> I added enough space to i386 (years ago) because the 'file system full'
> messages (from failing to drop core) looked like a different problem.

x86 ports no longer use ramdisk installation.
(and now your installboot hack in sysinst hack was removed).

> Even on a system with as little as 32MB memory, allocating an extra meg
> to the install ramdisk is unlikely to stop the install working.
> IIRC the ramdisk is compressed on the install media - so the empty
> blocks take almost no space there.
> 
> So really there is no reason not to a reasonable amount of free space.

There are several ports which have size restrictoin in bootloaders,
for example.

If you will work on it yourself no one will complain,
but your comments look like as an armchair philosopher.

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Izumi Tsutsui