Re: Issues with the Live CD requirement for separate /boot

[Alan Milnes <asm itguru org uk>]

2009/6/10 Kevin Fenzi <kevin scrye com>

On Wed, 10 Jun 2009 10:55:36 -0500
Matthew Woehlke <mw_triad users sourceforge net> 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.

The livecd installs by copying itself to your drive.
It cannot modify the way it is, which is a ext4 / and a ext3 /boot.
If you try and change either of those, anaconda will say no.

Perhaps ext4 was the wrong choice as the default for the LiveCD then?

Alan