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On Sun, 31 Oct 1999, John Pearson wrote: > If you want to avoid B?IOS problems by putting all of the files needed > to boot in the first 1024 cylinders, make /dev/hdc1 smaller (10Mb > should be heaps) and mount /dev/hdc3 as /, and /dev/hdc1 as /boot. Instead of making a separate /boot, i prefer to keep only the essentials in /. An 80MB partition has been more than enough for that in my experience. YMMV, especially if you have insanely huge files in /etc or you install many programs into /bin that should go into /usr/bin... > All of the files needed by LILO to boot the kernel live in /boot, and > 10Mb is more than adequate - I can easily store 5 kernels in a 5Mb > /boot partition. All the files needed to boot the kernel are in /boot by default on a Debian system (some other distros/Unicies put the kernel image in / instead of /boot). However, all the files needed by the kernel to boot the system aren't in /boot. If you keep /bin, /boot, /dev, /etc, /lib, and /sbin on the / partition; and /usr, /home, /var, /tmp on other partitions; then everything needed to boot the system is there in the one partition, and extra stuff isn't. - -- finger for PGP public key. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.3ia Charset: noconv iQCVAwUBOBvttL7M/9WKZLW5AQHXuwP+N74SEzI+FzxcnAEFXMlyPEJSH4UkWveh eS0MR0xEYwJIPLpOYFstgx6/wdhdmZfFFr7MAChRobuvMPPCJUF+fJSnAs7rGn0o +vOMt8Jze61iBLw5+1SZplgKzL0AeSybUiyD9DuynJQB3mnbkSRa2nGWJmbIAh/d aunqvQaqisU= =jdqy -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
