Issues with the Live CD requirement for separate /boot
Kevin Fenzi
kevin at scrye.com
Wed Jun 10 16:25:40 UTC 2009
On Wed, 10 Jun 2009 10:55:36 -0500
Matthew Woehlke <mw_triad at users.sourceforge.net> wrote:
> Scott Robbins wrote:
> > it has to boldly state--you CAN'T INSTALL THE LIVE CD ON ONE
> > PARTITION.
>
> You can't? Not even if you make / ext3 (or some other FS grub will
> recognize)?
No.
The livecd installs by copying itself to your drive.
It cannot modify the way it is, which is a ext4 / and a ext3 /boot.
If you try and change either of those, anaconda will say no.
> If not... I'm going to have to do a 'yum upgrade' on my asus, which
> is going to be... painful.
Try preupgrade?
> (Btw, is ext4 considered "safe" for SSD's? I've so far been using
> ext2 to avoid the journaling...)
Yes, I think so.
kevin
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