Partitioning your drive is something that basically everyone on Linux does but what purpose does it actually serve and is there any reason why it might be better to avoid creating partitions in your d...
When I was first using Linux, the bios could only read the first 100 megs of your hard drive. Your bootloader and config had to be there and your initrd and kernel had to fit in there as well. It was a lot easier to keep things small also. A coworker of mine and I built a 100 meg Linux distro to pxe boot thin clients.
/Me wonders off and starts muttering about calculaing mode lines on a CRT…
When I was first using Linux, the bios could only read the first 100 megs of your hard drive. Your bootloader and config had to be there and your initrd and kernel had to fit in there as well. It was a lot easier to keep things small also. A coworker of mine and I built a 100 meg Linux distro to pxe boot thin clients.
/Me wonders off and starts muttering about calculaing mode lines on a CRT…