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["ne..." <guhvies@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, Apr 1, 2009 at 17:07, Greg Freemyer <greg.freemyer@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > Is having a small /boot partition out of favor now?
> > >
> > > I haven't seen it mentioned in this thread.  I still use one when I
> > > setup multiboot.  But I'm normally doing windows and one or two suse
> > > versions.  I have not ever installed Ubuntu or Fedora.
> > I thought that was only needed for really old bioses. I haven't done
> > this in ages.
>
> I do it because it isolates the boot logic from the distros.  So if I
> decide to blow away a distro, I just do it, then clean things up in my
> /boot partition.
>
> If I had several distros installed and a /boot on everyone it seem
> more difficult to experiment, but I have never tried that.
For my personal use, I just use a single partition for each install. I
then reuse the partition after creating a tarbol of what I need to keep.
I elected to go the simple route.

ne...
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