On Mon, 2002-10-07 at 10:10, Roger Oberholtzer wrote: > I have a partition with user accounts and all my stuff, whihc is not in any > OS partition. I typically make a partition for the OS itself, putting the > whole OS in the one partition. Selecting the partition gets me the OS. > Caldera, as an example, lets me put the partitions how I want. I was just > wondering to what extent Gentoo allows this as well.
You can do this, but the reason Gentoo advocates a separate boot partition is security, as the default in its fstab is to not mount /boot automatically. Also, you then can use the same /boot partition if you were to have Gentoo + another distribution, saving a bit of space. Bob Raymond _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc -> http://www.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users