"Guy T. Rice" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> % cat VERSION
> linux-mandrake Hydrogen (20000511)
>
> While attempting to install the above version of Mandrake, it would not allow
> me to create a 7MB /boot partition. I normally allocate a 7MB partition at
> the start of my drive, taking up a single cylinder. This worked fine under
> Mandrake 7.0 (Air), but under the above version, no matter how small I told
> it I wanted the first primary partition, it created one that spanned two
> cylinders and took up 15MB. This is a bit of overkill for a partition that
> will hold less than a megabyte of data (914k according to "df" on my 7.0
> installation). I was sort of happy under 7.0 that I didn't have to use
> "fdisk" to partition my drives, I hope 7.1 can be fixed in time...
Unless this is a special case, you would not need anymore a small /boot
partition with lilo and grub of 7.1 :-)..
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Guillaume Cottenceau
