New vm-image size is much smaller than previos

[bob prohaska]

On Fri, May 03, 2019 at 11:06:15AM -0700, Rodney W. Grimes wrote:
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> > 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
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> 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.

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