Boot partion

[Roby]

SteVe Cook wrote:

> Am I correct in thinking that once the kernel is loaded into memory the
> disk image is no longer accessed.
> The reason I ask, is that I have a rather slow 1GB drive sat doing
> nothing and as I'm setting up and old machine as a server I thought I
> could use it as /boot partition and save space on the other disk.
> 
> SteVe
The boot files occupy only about 5mB.  I suppose you could use the 
remaining space for other files, but is the extra hardware and setup
complication worth it?