On 30 Jun 00, at 10:44, Rohit wrote:
> 1. If the size of the /boot partition is less than certain, 30 MB I
> guess.
> 2. If that is surpassed, ie the partition is more than 30 MB, 32 in
> case, it seems LILO fails in installing this.
Nope. I've seen systems with /boot of as low as 5 mb to 100 mb. It is
another matter that most of it is unutilised.
> no experience of the problems about partitioning. Who can imagine
> beforehand
> that ReiserFS would crib in making a partition less than 30 MB. It helps
> to ask and to look and that is what I am doing.
I have a /opt partition that is ReiserFS formatted and size is 25 MB,
so how come?
> What prevents me from using extra space in my /boot?
Nothing does, but why do you want to do it? Linux won't have anything
to do with it...if you have so much space, why not give it to /usr?
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