On Fri, 2024-07-19 at 16:13 +0200, Diederik de Haas wrote: > [ adding debian-release to the list for some troubling observations ] > > On Friday, 19 July 2024 15:54:57 CEST Vincent Lefevre wrote: > [...] > > Note that > > https://www.debian.org/releases/stable/amd64/apcs01.en.html > > does not recommend anything for the /boot partition. > > > > https://www.debian.org/releases/stable/amd64/apcs05.en.html says > > "25–50MB should suffice" (though this is probably not sufficient > > for most uses). > > > > https://linuxhint.com/boot-partition-size-debian/ says > > 256 MB / 512 MB for Debian 11. > > > > Mine has 512 MB (more that 10 times the recommended 25–50MB). > > Holy crap! Some quotes from the Stable documentation: > > "If you have a large IDE disk" > "This restriction doesn't apply if you have a BIOS newer than around > 1995–98" > Seeing the word "cylinder" all over the place ... > "CHS translation mode (“Large”)" = Cylinder/Head/Sector I presume? > > And then indeed "25–50MB should suffice" (for /boot/ partition). > > Maybe that document should be updated for this CENTURY?
"That document" comes from src:installation-guide, which is maintained by the d-i team, not the Release Team. Regards, Adam
