drive partition on install

[John Wendel]

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.
>
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Could someone please explain the need for a 100MB /boot? Mine is currently 
holding 8MB of files, with 92MB wasted.

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Regards,

John Wendel