Thanks for the answers. OT, but somewhat germane...
I installed Mandrake 8.0b3 last week. I thought it was going to give me choice as to boot from disk or make a boot floppy it didn't. Also interesting is that fact that it is *painfully* slow on my 233Mhz/80Mb system. I didn't take not of the boot time, but from login to desktop was 12 minutes(!!!). I had started to wonder if there was something funny in /boot. I reran lilo from potato. I need to make a mandrake boot floppy and see what effect that might have - doubtful much of anything. Again thanks, -rick -----Original Message----- From: Pann McCuaig [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, April 13, 2001 6:22 AM To: Debian User (E-mail) Subject: Re: /boot/System.map-2.2.18pre21 On Fri, Apr 13, 2001 at 04:36, Ethan Benson wrote: > in short i think sharing /boot across distributions is a bad idea, too > many distributions are too broken in fscking things up in /boot for it > to work very well. That may be a little too harsh. I agree that sharing /boot directly is a Bad Idea (TM), but with just a little fiddling it can be useful as a "lilo base directory". I have, for example, /boot/rescue/ /boot/potato/ /boot/rock/ /boot/lilo/ /etc/lilo.conf is a symlink to /boot/lilo/lilo.conf. The contents of /boot/whatever/ are what would be in /boot/ on that particular distribution. Those things that _MUST_ reside in /boot/ for lilo to work are symlinks to files in /boot/potato/, my primary distribution, and the one from which I usually run lilo. /boot/ need not even be mounted unless you're doing maintenance (e.g., running lilo) on it. Luck, Pann -- geek by nature, Linux by choice L I N U X .~. The Choice /V\ http://www.ourmanpann.com/linux/ of a GNU /( )\ Generation ^^-^^ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
