Issues with the Live CD requirement for separate /boot

[Kevin Fenzi]

On Wed, 10 Jun 2009 10:55:36 -0500
Matthew Woehlke <mw_triad at users.sourceforge.net> wrote:

> Scott Robbins wrote:
> > it has to boldly state--you CAN'T INSTALL THE LIVE CD ON ONE
> > PARTITION. 
> 
> You can't? Not even if you make / ext3 (or some other FS grub will 
> recognize)?

No. 

The livecd installs by copying itself to your drive. 
It cannot modify the way it is, which is a ext4 / and a ext3 /boot. 
If you try and change either of those, anaconda will say no. 

> If not... I'm going to have to do a 'yum upgrade' on my asus, which
> is going to be... painful.

Try preupgrade?

> (Btw, is ext4 considered "safe" for SSD's? I've so far been using
> ext2 to avoid the journaling...)

Yes, I think so. 

kevin
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