hockey@dialectronics.com (Tim Kelly) writes:

>when installing on 2G drive w/ less than 100mb root partition sysinst
>failed.  Ran out of space in /tmp.

First thing then should be to fix sysinst. It either has to work with
smaller /tmp or has to prevent people from chosing a too small partition.

>I offer the following for discussion as a default scheme
[...]
>/var mounted as a write-only partition
                   ^^^^^^^^^^
Hopefully not :)

>[...] While most people will have their
>own partitioning scheme, I feel that the default partition scheme should
>be a good option out of the box.

Then we need partitioning themes.

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