Gentoo question

[Bob Raymond]

On Mon, 2002-10-07 at 10:10, Roger Oberholtzer wrote:
> I have a partition with user accounts and all my stuff, whihc is not in any
> OS partition. I typically make a partition for the OS itself, putting the
> whole OS in the one partition. Selecting the partition gets me the OS. 
> Caldera, as an example, lets me put the partitions how I want. I was just
> wondering to what extent Gentoo allows this as well.

You can do this, but the reason Gentoo advocates a separate boot
partition is security, as the default in its fstab is to not mount /boot
automatically.  Also, you then can use the same /boot partition if you
were to have Gentoo + another distribution, saving a bit of space.


		Bob Raymond