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From: michaelv@iastate.edu (Michael L. VanLoon)
Subject: Re: [NetBSD 0.8] Various and sundry (but not too bad)
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Date: Thu, 10 Jun 1993 19:59:26 GMT
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In <CGD.93Jun5205626@erewhon.CS.Berkeley.EDU> cgd@erewhon.CS.Berkeley.EDU (Chris G. Demetriou) writes:

>>	   o There is no warning that choosing a swap partition of a
>>	     smaller size than system RAM size will disallow crash dumps.

>i'll add this to the documentation soon...

While you're updating documentation...  The installation will let you
install your system with a root partition that contains just the root
stuff (/bin, /dev, /etc, etc.), and a seperate /usr partition for the
rest.  It asks you how big you want your root paritition to be,
however, it doesn't say anything about the minimum amount of space
needed.  I think it would be a very good idea to have it put a little
not at the end saying something like: (Your root partition must be at
least 6MB).

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  Michael L. VanLoon                           Project Vincent Systems Staff
  michaelv@iastate.edu              Iowa State University Computation Center
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