On March 25, 2004 10:27 am, Shawn Grover wrote:
> Well, I must admit I followed the Gentoo install guide, and in doing so the
> boot partition isn't mounted (default Gentoo behavior). However, I think
> you can set this up in the fstab file (I'm sure I'll be corrected if I'm
> wrong...)
in /etc/fstab, one of the options for /boot on your system is noauto.
Don't automatically mount.
> With regards to your comments on the Gentoo documentation, I have to differ
> in my opinion. The documentation covers a great deal of standard linux
> items - specifically in the process to get to the base system. Yes, there
> is some Gentoo specific stuff, but mostly in terms of getting the packages
> to install and installing them. The info on CONFIGURING the packages
> applies to most any Linux distro's - and this is where the real gems of the
> document are. But, that's a discussion for a different thread.
>
> Shawn
>
> <snip>
>
> > For the purpose of this message, I mounted my /boot partition. This is
> > purposely small, and is an ext3 file system. (/home and / are rieserfs).
> > The boot partition isn't mounted once the system is up and running (for
>
> Neat! How do you do that?
See Above.
> > security), and only needs enough space to handle GRUB/LILO and a copy of
> > your kernel (if you setup fstab that way). The size recommendations for
> > the /boot partion are covered in the Gentoo install guide as well
> > (there's a LOT of good generic information in there).
>
> Yes, Gentoo is fairly well-renowned for their documentation. An excellent
> way to learn some of the deeper parts of Linux, although Gentoo-specific
> (unlike, say, LFS).
If it isn't Gentoo, it doesn't matter. I don't understand why it's taking so
long for all the legacy LSB distros to come around... :)
Course, my main server is blowed up right now 'cause PAM won't let Root log
into a command line. Strangely, I can authenticate through both cups and
samba as root however... I think it's due to playing with ldap, and then
trying to back out. Whatever, it could certainly be worse...
Kev.
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