[plug] creating partitions

[John Summerfield]

> On Thu, Aug 05, 1999 at 09:41:02PM +0800, Grant Heazlewood wrote:
> > I have at present a problem creating partitions with redhat. I am
> > installing rh6 using a boot disk I do a custom install and use disk
> > druid, when I try to create a  native partition with a mount point of
> > /  'root' I get a message that the  "boot partition is to big"  and it
> 
> try 100-200megs for /boot and the rest for /.

RH recommands 16 Mb for /boot; I think the whole idea silly unless you 
have one of those aging systems lacking in understanding of LBA (and I 
told them so).

Even ten, 16 Mb is absolutely heaps - how many kernels do you want there 
anyway? A root (not boot) fs of 100 Mb will satisfy most users, and 
overcome the 1023 cylinder problem.
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