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On Tue, May 01, 2001 at 12:40:02PM -0400, Justus Pendleton wrote: |
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> I'm in the process of downloading and installing gentoo and as I was |
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> looking over the install directions I noticed that the recommendation |
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> is for the boot partition to be ~100 megabytes. I'm wondering why so |
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> large? On one of my linux boxes the boot partition is 4 MB and I'm |
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> only using 36% of it. I know discs are cheap but 100 MB seems like a |
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> lot of overkill and wasted space. |
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> Justus |
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It depends on how many initrds and old kernels you like to keep around. |
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Adjust as you see fit. |
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Best Regards, |
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Daniel Robbins <drobbins@g.o> |
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President/CEO http://www.gentoo.org |
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Gentoo Technologies, Inc. |
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