On 30 Aug 2001 11:37:15 -0400, Rob Ransbottom wrote: > On Wed, 29 Aug 2001, John Purser wrote: > > > network gateway and provide DNS, DHCP, Web, and database service for my > > small network. Not a lot of users and not a lot of data. I'm a programmer > > who just wants a test network to play with. The partition scheme I'm > > considering is: > > / 243 Megs > > /boot 60 Megs > > Since both /boot & ROOT are tender & precious why not combine them.
One reason why not: you have a grub installation in /boot/grub. You can put /boot at the very start of the disk (as dman said in another thread) so that when you repartition grub doesn't get bumped around. I don't know if this will work if you have a primitive OS like Windows (never tried).
