From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from atlrel8.hp.com (atlrel8.hp.com [156.153.255.206]) by dsl2.external.hp.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7A87C482A for ; Wed, 3 Apr 2002 08:35:51 -0700 (MST) Received: from ldl.fc.hp.com (linux-bugs.fc.hp.com [15.1.50.190]) by atlrel8.hp.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 15D96A0092A for ; Wed, 3 Apr 2002 10:35:50 -0500 (EST) Received: from palinux.fc.hp.com (noam.fc.hp.com [15.1.52.69]) by ldl.fc.hp.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id C1857453E for ; Wed, 3 Apr 2002 08:35:49 -0700 (MST) Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=fc.hp.com ident=bame) by palinux.fc.hp.com with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 16smnd-0000BK-00 for ; Wed, 03 Apr 2002 08:35:49 -0700 To: parisc-linux@parisc-linux.org In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 02 Apr 2002 19:11:45 +0100." <20020402181145.GO18391@sleepie.demon.co.uk> References: <20020402171039.GM18391@sleepie.demon.co.uk> <20020402181145.GO18391@sleepie.demon.co.uk> Date: Wed, 03 Apr 2002 08:35:49 -0700 From: Paul Bame Message-Id: Subject: [parisc-linux] palo, f0 partition (Re: Network install on 712/80) Sender: parisc-linux-admin@lists.parisc-linux.org Errors-To: parisc-linux-admin@lists.parisc-linux.org List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: parisc-linux developers list List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: The f0 partition needs to be able to hold one recovery kernel plus 265k plus some roundoff -- so minimum size should probably be 8M just to be safe. f0 is capable of holding both a narrow and a wide kernel plus a ramdisk, which is how the installer works. After woody perhaps we can arrange for the install to put a recovery ramdisk as well as the customary recovery kernel, into the f0 partition. For that, 16M is probably a good size. -P