Need help with minimal install on ee701

Robert Moskowitz rgm at htt-consult.com
Wed Nov 28 06:38:04 UTC 2012


On 11/27/2012 01:15 PM, Alan Evans wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 26, 2012 at 7:03 PM, Robert Moskowitz wrote:
>
>
>     Right now I have a 300Mb /boot and 768Mb swap leaving ~2.7Gb for /.
>
>
> Not sure why you would bother with separate /boot and / partitions on 
> a system with only 4GB of mass storage. Just go with a single 
> partition, and limit the installed kernels to two -- current and 
> previous -- to save space.
>
> I didn't even have a swap partition on my 900A when I was using the 
> 4GB flash drive that came with it. but I had 2GB of RAM, so swap 
> wasn't much needed for the kinds of tasks I set that little machine 
> to. Of course, I didn't need hibernation, either.

Never thought of just one partition.  Always ASSuMEd that /boot had to 
be by itself.  I guess that just a / partition needs to be first and the 
swap at the end.  I will give that a go.

And how do I change the # of kernels?


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