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 <asom...@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.boy...@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 rgri...@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. The original FreeBSD install program (the one by Jordan Hubbard) did a very serviceable job. Could it (the user interface) be resurrected? Thanks for reading, bob prohaska _______________________________________________ freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-current-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
