On Wed, Nov 12, 2003 at 11:47:34AM +0000, David Laight wrote:
  | 
  | Module Name:	src
  | Committed By:	dsl
  | Date:		Wed Nov 12 11:47:34 UTC 2003
  | 
  | Modified Files:
  | 	src/sys/arch/i386/conf: INSTALL INSTALL_LAPTOP
  | 
  | Log Message:
  | Double space for memory disk to 5MB, this costs (almost) nothing on the
  | install media and the kernels (and sysinst) will still run on a 16MB system.
  | (They haven't run on an 8MB system for a while - might affect 12MB though.)
  | The additional space in the root filesystem lets sysinst core dump properly!

If coredump space is a problem *and* we have a scratch MFS /tmp,
I suggest to instead run
	sysctl -w kern.defcorename=/tmp/%n.core
in the startup files on the image.