On Tue, Nov 05, 2013 at 08:36:46AM -0500, Kenneth R Westerback wrote: > On Tue, Nov 05, 2013 at 09:23:36PM +1300, Andrey Sabitov wrote: > > Attn: OpenBSD Developers > > > > At the installation time with insufficient provided disk space > > the installer decides on installing selected file sets, > > runs out of disk space, and keeps trying to install the rest. > > > > How to repeat: > > Try installing all sets of OpenBSD 5.4 i386 on 10+G HDD with 300M /usr > > file system. > > > > The FAQ is not clear about requirements to minimal size of any file systems. > > > > It would be nice if the installer insisted on > > providing enough disk space for the selected file sets, > > rather than proceeded blind only to fail the installation. > > > > Thanks for your efforts. Great system. > > > > Regards, > > > > Andrey Sabitov > > > > Is the 300M /usr something you manually specified, or something that the > automatic disk layout specified? If the former, then you have taken > responsibility and there isn't much we can do. Putting in sufficient AI to > figure out how many of the sets you select would fit in the space you > provide would be a daunting task. And one whose implementation would be > a challenge to fit on a floppy, as our installer must. > > If however it is something that the automatic layout created we can look > at adjusting those sizes if necessary.
a separate usr is sized to be as least 900M by the auto allocation tables. > > .... Ken
