I agree I use a /boot still it comes in handy as well when you get odd problems with drives and such. Also if you have the space make your /boot about 150 megs as for you will find out quickly that 64 megs fills up when you stop using the arch standard kernel.

Terry Smith wrote:

Jan de Groot wrote:

On Tue, 2005-06-21 at 00:46 +0200, Michael Johnson wrote:

I have some questions about howto setup a (kinda) optimal partitioning
for my 160GB (~153GB) harddrive
I figured something like:
C:\    15GB  winXP ntfs
D:\    110 GB data fat32
/boot  64MB
/        15GB
/home 10GB

My questions are as follows:
* Do I have enough room for arch?
* Should I have D as above or would it be better to have one 100GB ntfs
partition and one 10-20GB fat32 partition for exchanging data?

greatful for all advice/hints

/michael



You won't need the /boot, it can reside on / nowadays. Having a
separate /boot is from the days lilo couldn't boot across the 1024
cylinder boundary, or is a requirement when you use software RAID-0 or
RAID-5.


You don't have to use a seperate /boot partiion but it sure is handy if you run a dual (or higher) booting linux box, as I do. I use one true /boot partition with the other distros set up to have /boot as an embedded directory in /. That way vmlinuz and initrd files created during an install or kernel upgrade can be moved to the true /boot partition after the fact and lilo or grup updated by hand.

Terry Smith

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