You have a point, I merely was following advice from the documentation packaged
with SuSE 6.1. I've never tried less space.
On Wed, 29 Mar 2000, you wrote:
> John Aldrich wrote:
>
> > On Wed, 29 Mar 2000, you wrote:
> > > One thing you might try if you wish to install Mandrake first is to create a
> > > partition (~100 MB) and name it's mount point "/boot".
> > >
> > Umm... Ok. I'll bite. Why so large? It's only going to hold the kernel and
> > system map, etc. That's a grand total of under a meg. Even using FDISK, I
> > couldn't make a partition smaller than about 15-20 megs, which is MUCH more
> > than I need, and I've got about 4 different kernels and system maps, etc in
> > there. :-)
> > John
>
> You really don't need 100MB, if you use the Mandrake installer, you can set the
> size of the boot partition with that. I would go maybe 20MB which is, as you
> said, plenty. From there, go ahead and do your install of Mandrake, then do
> Windows, and just use your Linux boot disk that you created on install to boot
> Linux again, configure lilo.conf like so:
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