RE: Upgrading to 7.1, need help with partitioning

[Heid Oliver <oliver heid siemens com>]

In view of that problem: Why do you need a dedicated /boot partition at all?
You could put /boot on the root partition..
	Oliver

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Igor Schein [SMTP:igor@bikram.txc.com]
> Sent:	Wednesday, February 13, 2002 4:43 PM
> To:	axp-list@redhat.com
> Subject:	Re: Upgrading to 7.1, need help with partitioning
> 
> On Tue, Feb 12, 2002 at 12:12:10PM -0500, Allen Ziegenfus wrote:
> > Hello,
> > 
> > I own an Alpha PC 164-LX which is currently running Redhat 6.0. I'm
> > trying to upgrade to 7.1. After spending 4-5 hours just trying
> > to get the install program to run, now I'm faced with this error message
> > saying I need 3 MB more space on my /boot partition. Currently it's
> > a 10 MB partition. 
> > 
> > Does this mean I have to repartition my drive? Is this something I can 
> > accomplish safely either using AlphaBios or one of the fdisk utilities? 
> 
> How about taking the harddrive out, putting it into a ix86 PC and
> use parted or partition magic to repartition?
> 
> Igor
> 
> 
> 
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