Hello! On Mon, Feb 27, 2006 at 07:37:12PM +0100, Michael Schmidt wrote: >Hello,
>version: 3.8 >architecture: i386 >I have seen that /etc cannot be located on a separated partition. >Why can it be not on an extra partition? Because init wants to start a shell on /etc/rc, and mount -a ... wants /etc/fstab to find any other file systems. That's only 2 reasons. There're probably more than that. Kind regards, Hannah.

