Gentoo Archives: gentoo-dev

From: Sebastian Werner <sebastian@××××××××××××××××××.de>
To: gentoo-dev@g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] boot partition size recommendation
Date: Tue, 01 May 2001 10:57:25
Message-Id: E14udSF-0004ss-00@mrvdom00.schlund.de
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] boot partition size recommendation by Daniel Robbins
1 For the people who want to see the development of the last years can boot so
2 a nice 1.0.x version of linux... upps, there's no reiserfs-support...
3
4 happy hacking..
5
6 Sebastian
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8 Am Dienstag, 1. Mai 2001 18:52 schrieben Sie:
9 > On Tue, May 01, 2001 at 12:40:02PM -0400, Justus Pendleton wrote:
10 > > I'm in the process of downloading and installing gentoo and as I was
11 > > looking over the install directions I noticed that the recommendation
12 > > is for the boot partition to be ~100 megabytes. I'm wondering why so
13 > > large? On one of my linux boxes the boot partition is 4 MB and I'm
14 > > only using 36% of it. I know discs are cheap but 100 MB seems like a
15 > > lot of overkill and wasted space.
16 > >
17 > > Justus
18 >
19 > It depends on how many initrds and old kernels you like to keep around.
20 > Adjust as you see fit.
21 >
22 > Best Regards,
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41 Date: Tue May 1 18:39:01 CEST 2001
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