> After some advocacy effort, I convinced a friend to try > FreeBSD and I handed him some old 3.4 CDs I had. He > attempted to install it on a 600M HD with the surprise that > the auto settings in sysinstall didn't leave him sufficient > space on the /usr partition. He was somewhat surprised as > the CD box actually suggested that much less space was > required. He downloaded a 5.0 ISO and found the same > problem. > > My question is; how much disk space is required to install > FreeBSD nowadays??
This is a known problem. Unfortunately I don't think it will ever get fixed because it's an issue where everyone likes to fight about their way being best. I would expect the disk in question to be enough if the partitions were sized by hand after looking at an installed system. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
