On Wed, Jan 05, 2005 at 10:49:19AM +0100, Philippe Guyot wrote:

quoted

BTW, i have another question. I am trying to fix debian-installer to create
the prep partition, but i would like to have some info on the expected
constraints of said partition. Some tell it has to be entirely in the first
8MB, others the first 5MB, and my powerstack has a 17MB boot partition
right now.

All I can say, it's that my boot PReP partition is the 1st and about 4 MB in 
size (cannot size it less than 1% of the disk.....)
second partition is /
third is swap.

BTW, for debian, it makes more sense to have the second partition as swap, and
the third as /, i think, since it was decided some time back to default to
root=/dev/sda3, and not sda2.

That works for me.

Until the kernel grows beyond 4MB.

Friendly,

Sven Luther