On Friday 28 March 2003 23:58, Alec Berryman wrote: > > I wouldn't say that Gentoo requires a /boot. Personally, I don't use one > - OK, it might save my kernel if my other partitions corrupt, but if so a > kernel would be the least of my worries. A /boot is reccomended and is > good practice, but is not required - especially not at 100MB. Unless you > keep three or four kernels _and_ sources there :) >
The sources of the vanilla version themselves allready take up more than 100MB, and with objects populating the tree, mine is 200 MB big. Paul ps. I generally make a 15MB+ (to next higher block boundary) boot partition. -- Paul de Vrieze Researcher Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Homepage: http://www.devrieze.net
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