Re: [gentoo-dev] boot partition size recommendation

[Sebastian Werner <sebastian@werner-productions.de>]

For the people who want to see the development of the last years can boot so 
a nice 1.0.x version of linux... upps, there's no reiserfs-support...

happy hacking..

Sebastian

Am Dienstag,  1. Mai 2001 18:52 schrieben Sie:
> On Tue, May 01, 2001 at 12:40:02PM -0400, Justus Pendleton wrote:
> > I'm in the process of downloading and installing gentoo and as I was
> > looking over the install directions I noticed that the recommendation
> > is for the boot partition to be ~100 megabytes.  I'm wondering why so
> > large?  On one of my linux boxes the boot partition is 4 MB and I'm
> > only using 36% of it.  I know discs are cheap but 100 MB seems like a
> > lot of overkill and wasted space.
> >
> > Justus
>
> It depends on how many initrds and old kernels you like to keep around.
> Adjust as you see fit.
>
> Best Regards,

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