Getting rid of /boot

Marc Wilson msw at cox.net
Sun Dec 6 14:30:12 UTC 2009


On Sat, Dec 5, 2009 at 9:20 PM, Gene Heskett <gene.heskett at verizon.net> wrote:

> I need to install F12 here at some point, and it sure would be a hell of a
> lot easier if F10 had enough libraries installed to run gparted to prepare a
> drive the way _I_ want it and tell anaconda to go pound sand.  For instance,
> why will it not accept a /boot partition specified for more than 199
> megabytes?
>
> Why will it not accept a separate /root partition?
>
> Why will it not accept a separate /var partition?
>
> Or a separate /etc partition?

I did all of those things with the *installer*.  IMHO if you've
already decided you need to use gparted before you get started, you're
part of the problem, not the solution.

-- 
Marc Wilson
msw at cox.net




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