Re: Installing 9front

[Ethan Grammatikidis <eekee57@fastmail.fm>]

On Mon, 30 Jul 2012 12:22:16 -0400
Matthew Veety <mveety@gmail.com> wrote:

> On 7/30/12 7:09 AM, Uriel wrote:
> > 3) Not only are the disk space requirements are somewhat high, but you
> > get no warning if your disk is too small, you go all the way into
> > copydist, which barfs on disk full errors, but 'completes' anyway and
> > pretends it is done and that you can go on with the next install step.
> >
> > At the very least we should warn if the disk is too small, and
> > probably we should fail before going into copydist.
> 
> I agree with you here, an option to use kfs would be awesome, especially 
> because cwfs is overkill for non-fileserver cases.
> 
> Also, I think work should be done to make cwfs a little more versatile 
> when it comes to disk size.
> 
> --
> Veety
> 

No need, you can run a dump-free cwfs. Making the installer support (and explain) that should be quite trivial.

-- 
This is obviously some strange usage of the 
word "simple" that I was previously unaware of.