On Wed, Jan 05, 2005 at 10:49:19AM +0100, Philippe Guyot wrote: > > BTW, i have another question. I am trying to fix debian-installer to create > > the prep partition, but i would like to have some info on the expected > > constraints of said partition. Some tell it has to be entirely in the first > > 8MB, others the first 5MB, and my powerstack has a 17MB boot partition > > right now. > > > All I can say, it's that my boot PReP partition is the 1st and about 4 MB in > size (cannot size it less than 1% of the disk.....) > second partition is / > third is swap.
BTW, for debian, it makes more sense to have the second partition as swap, and the third as /, i think, since it was decided some time back to default to root=/dev/sda3, and not sda2. > That works for me. Until the kernel grows beyond 4MB. Friendly, Sven Luther
