*- On 27 Sep, Chris Ruvolo wrote about "Re: partition this thing!" > At 11:02 PM 9/26/99 +0300, you wrote: >>This is my first try at more than swap and /. tiny /boot, giant >>/home, right? Anyone feel like helping? > > I don't think a separate partition for /boot would be a good idea. /boot > is the default location for the kernel. Having the kernel and init > (usually /sbin) on different partitions is probably bad. I don't see how > that would work unless you mounted them both on the first pass (could take > some mucking around in your startup scripts, and generally not a good idea). >
Sometimes you have to put /boot on a separate partition because of the 1024 cylinder limit of lilo. I had to do this for my 17.2G drive(hdb) that most of my Linux was on. I made a small 15M partition on my smaller drive(hda) for /boot and it works like a champ. See the Partition mini-HOWTO as well as the Large-Disk mini-HOWTO. -- Brian --------------------------------------------------------------------- Mechanical Engineering [EMAIL PROTECTED] Purdue University http://www.ecn.purdue.edu/~servis ---------------------------------------------------------------------