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?
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