Bug#62938: boot-floppies SYSLINUX info page wrong
On Tue, 25 Apr 2000, Sergiu Partenie wrote:
> Santiago Vila wrote:
> > On Mon, 24 Apr 2000, Sergiu Partenie wrote:
> >
> > > Package: boot-floppies
> > >
> > > The info pages on the SYSLINUX prompt states that "You need a partition
> > > whit minimum 40Mb free to install debian". Please increase the number to
> > > 80Mb (at least)
> >
> > The 40Mb number refers to the size of the base system.
> > It would be worth to clarify that, instead of increasing the number.
>
> The potato base system + the kernel & the drivers (from drivers disks
> 1,2 and 3) - considering the filesystem block size - take about 50Mb. If
> you want to apt-get update or update form dpkg - put another 10Mb in
> there.
The 40Mb number you initially reported came from a slink boot floppy, right?
The current number in potato, according to documentation/defaults.ent
(ENTITY minimum-fs-size) is 64MB, so it seems this has been already
increased.
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