On Thu, 30 May 2002 11:18, Dale Huckeby wrote: > On Wed, 29 May 2002, Michael Adams wrote: > > On Wed, 29 May 2002 13:58, FemmeFatale wrote: > > > I've run 8.0, 8.1 & now 8.2. Always I've accepted the default install > > > partitions of root (/), swap & home. > > > > > > the one time I tried on 8.0 to make a boot, root, swap, var & other > > > partitions, the boot partition was blank. As a result the root > > > directory had a boot directory beneath it holding the boot files. I > > > was stumped. > > > > > > Is this standard behaviour or did I screw something up? *not that > > > that'd be the first time I manage to FUBAR a system.* > > > > > > TIA > > > > Not sure Femme. If you told it "/boot" is a partition, the directory > > should have been effectively a hard link to your /boot partition. In my > > understanding, often error prone, in up to 8.1 /boot and / both needed to > > be ext2 but not under 8.2. Without knowing exactly what you tried and how > > you went about it, it is hard to tell more. > > I've been using /, swap, /home, and /usr, all primary partitions, and > all but swap ReiserFS, since 7.2. Hasn't been any trouble. > > Dale Huckeby
There you go, i was error prone... dang. Perhaps it was a reccomend that the / and /boot be ext2. I dunno why, but i am pretty sure i heard it somewhere. -- Michael
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