Boot size

[Craig White]

On Sat, 2003-03-01 at 18:24, Carl Parrish wrote:
> Hey everyone. while doing an install of RH 8.0 I was partitioning the
> hard drive I set the boot partition to 16M (what I typically set it at).
> It then gave me an error msg saying I should set the boot partition to a
> min of 75M. I thought that was crazy and told it to go ahead with what I
> set it for. Finished the install and everything seems to be fine. Anyone
> know if there really *was* a reason to set the boot partition to 75M? 
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With the frequency of kernel updates lately, a sizable boot volume
allows you to retain some kernels. With a 16M /boot partition, you are
gonna have to do some housekeeping. There's a lot more files in the
/boot directory these days. Updating to say 8.1 may be a problem.

Craig