On Fri, May 3, 2019, 7:42 PM bob prohaska <fbsd_at_www.zefox.net> wrote: > On Fri, May 03, 2019 at 11:06:15AM -0700, Rodney W. Grimes wrote: > > -- Start of PGP signed section. > > > On Fri, May 03, 2019 at 10:12:58AM -0700, Enji Cooper wrote: > > > > > > > > > On May 3, 2019, at 9:57 AM, Alan Somers <asomers_at_FreeBSD.org> > wrote: > > > > > > > > > > See r346959. Before first boot, you should expand the image up to > > > > > whatever size you want. growfs(8) will automatically expand the > file > > > > > system. > > > > > -Alan > > > > > > > > > > On Fri, May 3, 2019 at 10:32 AM David Boyd <David.Boyd49_at_twc.com> > wrote: > > > > >> > > > > >> The vm-image for 13.0-CURRENT > > > > >> > > > > >> FreeBSD-13.0-CURRENT-amd64-20190503-r347033.vmdk > > > > >> > > > > >> is only 4.0 GB in size. Previous images were about 31.0 GB. > > > > >> > > > > >> This smaller image doesn't leave much room to add packages and > other > > > > >> customizations. > > > > > > > > This probably deserves a release note. > > > > > > It will certainly be mentioned in the 11.3 release notes. > > > > And those running head snapshots without reading commit messages > > are likely to have lots of foot shooting. > > > > > Glen > > -- > > Rod Grimes > rgrimes_at_freebsd.org > > At the risk of being branded a wishful thinker, a firstboot script that > asked the user for some configuration information would be a great help > to both new and experienced foot-shooters. I'm thinking of Raspberry Pi, > but perhaps it applies to non-embedded platforms also. > That's not a bad idea... we could press bsdinstall into service for that perhaps... we already expand the partition / filesystem to match the media size... The original FreeBSD install program (the one by Jordan Hubbard) did a > very serviceable job. Could it (the user interface) be resurrected? > Unlikely. It's too far bit rotted these days. It was extremely tailored to the i386 env, and a lot has changed since we retired it. This is an interesting idea. It seems like it wouldn't be too hard to prototype. Warner Thanks for reading, > > bob prohaska > > > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-current_at_freebsd.org mailing list > https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-current-unsubscribe_at_freebsd.org" >Received on Fri May 03 2019 - 23:52:43 UTC
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