Bug 13936

Summary:	[sysinstall] no clear indication of how much space to allocate to FreeBSD partition.
Product:	Base System	Reporter:	bigduppy <bigduppy>
Component:	bin	Assignee:	freebsd-bugs (Nobody) <bugs>
Status:	Closed FIXED
Severity:	Affects Only Me
Priority:	Normal
Version:	Unspecified
Hardware:	Any
OS:	Any

Description bigduppy 1999-09-24 19:50:01 UTC

I have not bee able to find how much space will be required to install FreeBSD using the variuos options on the install menu. It would be really nice if each option had, in it's description, an indication of how much disk space would be required. At first I thought, this FreeBSD is really great, takes up much less space than a Linux installation! However when I tried to install my choices, including KDE, to a 700MB FreeBSD partition, it ran out of space. Reality Check!

Fix: 

Indicate in the documentation and if possible the install menus, the approximate amount of disk space required to install various options.

Comment 1 nbm freebsd_committer

2000-08-05 23:54:27 UTC

Responsible Changed
From-To: freebsd-bugs->murray

Murray should be able to handle this.

Comment 2 Murray Stokely freebsd_committer

2001-08-30 23:47:54 UTC

Responsible Changed
From-To: murray->eric

Eric is working on our installer tools now.

Comment 3 Eric Melville freebsd_committer

2001-10-01 19:59:25 UTC

Responsible Changed
From-To: eric->freebsd-qa

assign idle sysinstall bugs to freebsd-qa, as suggested by murray

Comment 4 Johan Karlsson freebsd_committer

2002-08-25 03:38:50 UTC

Responsible Changed
From-To: freebsd-qa->qa

Use short names for mailing list to make searches    
using the web query form work with the shown responsible. 

This also makes open PRs show up in the summery mail.

Comment 5 Mark Linimon freebsd_committer

2008-01-26 00:07:55 UTC

State Changed
From-To: open->closed

This PR is antique; one of our bugbusters (erandir) notes that the 
information is in the Handbook these days.