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Re: Reiserfs boot floppies for Debian?



karlheg@bittersweet.member.dsl-only.net (Karl M. Hegbloom) writes:

> Re: Debian Floppies/ReiserFS
>     http://lists.debian.org/debian-boot-0010/msg00191.html
> 
>  Do you have a set of install floppies I can download and have a look
>  at?  What was involved in creating them?
> 
>  I built a box today with Reiserfs...  Here's how.
> 
>  It's going to be my workstation at my new job.  Starting with a
>  potato CD, I partitioned the hard drive with a 64Mb /root in hda1, 2
>  127 Mb partitions, and another filling the rest of the drive.  One of
>  the 127Mb partitions I marked as swap, the other as Linux, and the
>  large partition is Linux.
> 
>  I mounted the 127Mb partition as /, and the 64Mb one as /boot.

I don't understand the rationale for installing a partition as /boot.
I always thought /boot had to be on the root partition?  Isn't that
true, since it has the kernel?


-- 
.....Adam Di Carlo....adam@onShore.com.....<URL:http://www.onShore.com/>



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