Issues with the Live CD requirement for separate /boot

[Adam Williamson]

On Wed, 2009-06-10 at 10:55 -0500, Matthew Woehlke 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, you can't, because you can't change the filesystem in a live CD
install. :\ AIUI, anyway.

> (Btw, is ext4 considered "safe" for SSD's? I've so far been using ext2 
> to avoid the journaling...)

I've seen several sources state that this concern is exaggerated and you
probably shouldn't really worry about journalling FSes on SSDs, but I'm
not enough of an expert to know which side is in the right on that one.
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