Youre probably going to have this problem across the board.
When setting up your partitions, you best set up /boot - at about 15 megs -
as an individual partition to the rest of your system.
That'll solve the problem.
With a disk that large, if its dedicated to linux, you could almost have 2G
each for /var, /home, /bin etc and not notice. :P
I think youd find youd probably have problems like this regardless of which
version redhat you use. I had interesting problems booting redhat on a
single-partition 10 G system so wound up dividing up the filesystem.
[admin@rhino admin]$ df -h
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/hda6 2.0G 58M 1.8G 3% /
/dev/hda1 15M 7.5M 6.5M 53% /boot
/dev/hda11 11G 196M 10G 2% /home
/dev/hda7 2.0G 411M 1.5G 21% /usr
/dev/hda5 2.0G 17M 1.9G 1% /var
/dev/hda8 1008M 12M 945M 1% /var/log
/dev/hda9 1008M 89M 868M 9% /var/spool/squid
[admin@rhino admin]$
Thats how mines divides up on a 10 gig drive. Maybe you need to try
something similar?
(Oh, and another useful thing - remember to install using text mode.. I
think RH6.1's GUI install was a bit funny? Twas my experience anyway)
-.-. --.-
Mark Foster - [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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+64-21-499-368 / +64-9-525-2220
http://www.intermech.co.nz
----- Original Message -----
From: "Julie" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Thursday, May 24, 2001 2:13 PM
Subject: [techtalk] SMP kernels and ISO images ...
> Greets,
>
> I got my new server home last night (dual 933MHz P3s) and went
> to install Linux only to discover the RedHat 6.1 I have is Just Too
> Old to load on a 60MB disk. It keeps bailing with "Boot partition
> too big" or words to that effect. So I'm thinking about downloading
> something a bit more modern.
>
> My question is, where do I find ISO images of bootable Linux
> install CDs and are there different images for SMP boxen?
>
> -- Julie.
>
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