Issues with the Live CD requirement for separate /boot

[Matthew Woehlke]

Kevin Fenzi wrote:
> On Wed, 10 Jun 2009 10:55:36 -0500
> Matthew Woehlke wrote:

Ahem. Please do not quote my e-mail address unobfuscated in message bodies.

>> 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. 

Has something changed? I /know/ I created a custom partition layout for 
F10 (because I have / and /home, with no /boot *and no swap*), and I 
know I did it from the KDE Live spin (which I still have on USB, being 
the only easy way to get Fedora onto my Eee). I sure don't remember 
creating that layout after the fact, I want to say I installed that way 
straight off.

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

Actually... I doubt I have the space for it (only 700 M free) :-). 
Besides, yum upgrade will let me keep a closer eye on what additional 
dependencies get sucked in. (With less than 3 G of space for the OS, I 
care very much about keeping the rpm set as lean as possible. Even so 
far as giving up kcalc so I can keep the monstrous foomatic off the system.)

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

Hmm... well, not sure if I'll try it. I'd be a bit paranoid about /home 
getting nuked if I have to split / (though, in fairness, there is so 
little actually on the SSD that it would be trivial to back everything 
up first).

-- 
Matthew
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