Re: Gentoo fresh install

Ric de France <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.org.user-groups.mlug.main
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Keith,

On 8/22/05, Keith Bainbridge <[email protected]> wrote:
> Sounds like a good reason to follow the suggestion
> 
> On Mon, 22 Aug 2005 08:42:46 +1000  Ric de France
> <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> > The reason for a seperate
> > "/boot" partition is that is it usually unmounted, and therefore
> > you can not corrupt the kernel or initrd if you copied things into
> > it accidentally. You would have to consciously mount it, and then
> > screw it up...

BTW... If you put /boot on a seperate partition (regardless of
distribution - ie. you can do it with Red Hat / Fedora, Ubuntu,
Mandriva, etc...), then you should be able to leave it unmounted by
default via your fstab file. It's not a new concept, but I do think
Gentoo do a good job at communicating it.

...Ric
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