Jack Schwartz wrote:
> Hi everyone.
>
> With the latest IPS changes, it appears that the slim CD's root
> filesystem needs an additional ~96 Mb. "pkg install" needs the space
> when installing additional packages. I believe this is due to the push
> for 12409 and 12340.
>
> The 96 Mb breaks down to ~46Mb needed to read the /var/pkg/state/...
> tree into memory so it is changeable, and another ~50Mb* used to copy it
> as part of the pkg install operation. The slim CD manifest needs the
> following changes:
> - specify the /var/pkg/state tree as bootroot-resident ("ramdisk-resident")
> - specify an additional 50Mb space via
> img_params/output_image/boot_archive/size_pad_mb
>
> * 50 Mb used to allow a little extra space for installed packages, etc.
> 46 Mb may be sufficient.
>
> Not sure if there may be a better strategy to handle this, as this will
> impact the minimum memory requirement of systems being able to run a
> live CD (whether slim or AI). Any ideas?
>
I would be quite surprised if we are still able to install on 512 MB
systems with this proposed change. Do you have some experimental
results with an image built as proposed?
Dave
