[lug] LILO and L :}

[Installer]

On Tue, 20 Feb 2001, Ferdinand Schmid uttered:

>Just to give you an idea of what Rob is talking about in (a):
>10 MB is plenty for a /boot partition.  If you want to splurge give it 50 MB (for
>booting into many different kernels).
>When I was new to this I found it difficult to find guidelines for sizing this
>/boot partition so I thought I'd send this message.

I think a good rule of thumb is to allow approx 1MB per kernel you
anticipate storing there.  This would error on the side of more space than
necessary, but that's better than too little.

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John Karns                                              jkarns at csd.net