On Saturday 09 May 2009, Dale wrote:
I was talking about with just a plain file system. I read in a
install guide somewhere when I was installing ages ago that having
/boot on a separate partition, and not always mounted, was a good
security practice. That way no one could alter the kernel
Francesco Talamona wrote:
On Saturday 09 May 2009, Dale wrote:
I was talking about with just a plain file system. I read in a
install guide somewhere when I was installing ages ago that having
/boot on a separate partition, and not always mounted, was a good
security practice. That way
On 9 May 2009, at 16:23, Alan McKinnon wrote:
On Saturday 09 May 2009 15:13:35 Stroller wrote:
On 9 May 2009, at 13:41, Dirk Heinrichs wrote:
Am Samstag, 9. Mai 2009 12:20:46 schrieb Stroller:
This is Gentoo, so you as the user define the rules. And for _me_,
it definitely
_is_ a rule.
Am Samstag, 9. Mai 2009 12:20:46 schrieb Stroller:
This is Gentoo, so you as the user define the rules. And for _me_,
it definitely
_is_ a rule.
Could you possibly explain why, please?
Because it eliminates the need for an initramfs (which I used until a few
weeks ago), even if you've
Dirk Heinrichs wrote:
Am Samstag, 9. Mai 2009 12:20:46 schrieb Stroller:
This is Gentoo, so you as the user define the rules. And for _me_,
it definitely
_is_ a rule.
Could you possibly explain why, please?
Because it eliminates the need for an initramfs (which I used
Am Samstag, 9. Mai 2009 14:46:39 schrieb Dale:
Wasn't there a security reason for this setup at one time? If you put
/boot on a separate partition, then the only time it needed to be
mounted was to update the kernel or edit grub/lilo. That was what I was
reading when I installed Gentoo oh
On 9 May 2009, at 13:41, Dirk Heinrichs wrote:
Am Samstag, 9. Mai 2009 12:20:46 schrieb Stroller:
This is Gentoo, so you as the user define the rules. And for _me_,
it definitely
_is_ a rule.
Could you possibly explain why, please?
Because it eliminates the need for an initramfs (which I
Dirk Heinrichs wrote:
Am Samstag, 9. Mai 2009 14:46:39 schrieb Dale:
Wasn't there a security reason for this setup at one time? If you put
/boot on a separate partition, then the only time it needed to be
mounted was to update the kernel or edit grub/lilo. That was what I was
reading
On Saturday 09 May 2009 15:13:35 Stroller wrote:
On 9 May 2009, at 13:41, Dirk Heinrichs wrote:
Am Samstag, 9. Mai 2009 12:20:46 schrieb Stroller:
This is Gentoo, so you as the user define the rules. And for _me_,
it definitely
_is_ a rule.
Could you possibly explain why, please?
On Sat, 09 May 2009 08:15:09 -0500, Dale wrote:
I was talking about with just a plain file system. I read in a install
guide somewhere when I was installing ages ago that having /boot on a
separate partition, and not always mounted, was a good security
practice. That way no one could alter
Neil Bothwick wrote:
On Sat, 09 May 2009 08:15:09 -0500, Dale wrote:
I was talking about with just a plain file system. I read in a install
guide somewhere when I was installing ages ago that having /boot on a
separate partition, and not always mounted, was a good security
practice.
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