[techtalk] SMP kernels and ISO images ...

[Mark Foster]

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 at 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 at 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 - markf at intermech.co.nz
IT Manager, Intermech Ltd
+64-21-499-368 / +64-9-525-2220
http://www.intermech.co.nz
----- Original Message -----
From: "Julie" <jockgrrl at austin.rr.com>
To: <techtalk at linuxchix.org>
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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