The /boot partition only needs to be about 15 megs. That is what I set
mine to without any problems.
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On 7/3/2000 at 10:18 PM Tom Brinkman scribbled:
>On Mon, 03 Jul 2000, you wrote:
>> On Sun, Jul 02, 2000 at 07:52:41AM -0500, Tom Brinkman wrote:
>> > it lets you decide what sizes you want. I use 40 for /boot so I
>> > can save kernel source and headers there.
>>
>> Kernel source on a 40 MB partition? Are you sure? My kernel-source
RPM has
>> a installed size of 68449254 bytes.
>>
>> Or what do you mean by source?
>>
>> Alexander Skwar
>
> The kernel source and header rpm's, about 20 mb. The reason I do
>this is just so I can remember just where I archive them, and you
>can do an install, without touching the /boot dir. Actually there's
>no reason to compile a Mandrake kernel from source except to patch
>in some special module(s). I overclock to the hilt, and use to use
>lm_sensors. Those modules need to be compiled against the (running)
>kernel source. Since I got in the habit of making /boot 40 mb,
>I've found a better system monitor that doesn't need lm_sensors
>(specially since lm_sensors doc's really sux).
>
> Biggest mistake is to try and compile a non-Mandrake patched
>kernel (eg, from kernel.org) and use it with Mandrake :)
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>~~ Tom Brinkman [EMAIL PROTECTED]
