david@ wrote: > > Note sysinst(8) requires some spare space in /tmp during installation, > > especially on using non-default settings on choosing installation sets etc. > > on ports which don't use tmpfs or mfs during installation. > > (100KB would be enough for this newsmips case though) > > It is also useful if there is enough space for sysinst to drop core.
I don't think it's so worth in the real world. > Unless the system has very limited memory (in which case it really won't > run much) then adding a meg or two to the ramdisk size probably doen't > matter. - no automated method to calculate necessary size to maintain the numbers - few user will report problems using core (it isn't trivial to copy core on ramdisk into other working machines) - developers usually use /usr/sbin/sysinst binary rather than actual install kernels with crunchgen + makefs + mdsetimage + reboot (gdb requires target binary and crunched binary is annoying) - x86 ports already have USB install images without ramdisk and they are also useful enough for debug --- Izumi Tsutsui
