On Thu, 2004-07-22 at 19:19, John Wendel wrote: > On Thursday 22 July 2004 02:38 pm, - - s r b - - wrote: > > Sam Tregar wrote: > > >I'm not an official source, but I'd lay it out like this: > > > > > > /boot 100MB > > > swap 1024MB > > > / everything else > > > > > >The /boot partition is useful to work around problems some BIOS have > > >with booting a kernel that's too far into the disk (past 8GB, if > > >memory serves). 1GB of swap is generally right for 512MB of memory. > > >Then I just partition the rest as one big / partition. > > > > I'd agree except for the swap size. I'd just make it equal to your RAM > > size. UNLESS you know you are going to use a lot of memory for a certain > > function. > > > > -- > > - - s r b - - > > mozilla|mozilla > > firefox|thunderbird > > > Could someone please explain the need for a 100MB /boot? Mine is currently > holding 8MB of files, with 92MB wasted. Not truly needed, and you can tell the installer to allow a smaller partition. However it is recommended that you use something near that because of the probability that you will have multiple kernels installed at the same time as updates progress.
