On Tue, May 01, 2001 at 12:40:02PM -0400, Justus Pendleton wrote:
> I'm in the process of downloading and installing gentoo and as I was
> looking over the install directions I noticed that the recommendation
> is for the boot partition to be ~100 megabytes.  I'm wondering why so
> large?  On one of my linux boxes the boot partition is 4 MB and I'm
> only using 36% of it.  I know discs are cheap but 100 MB seems like a
> lot of overkill and wasted space.
> 
> Justus

It depends on how many initrds and old kernels you like to keep around.
Adjust as you see fit.

Best Regards,

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Daniel Robbins					<drobbins@g.o>
President/CEO					http://www.gentoo.org 
Gentoo Technologies, Inc.