Install failed

Robert Holtzman holtzm at cox.net
Tue Sep 21 22:51:08 UTC 2010


On Tue, Sep 21, 2010 at 01:47:08PM -0500, Cybe R. Wizard wrote:
> On Tue, 21 Sep 2010 11:17:37 -0700
> rikona <rikona at sonic.net> wrote:
> 
> > To preserve ext3 compatibility, I pre-formatted a disk with ext3
> > partitions - 10G /, 2G swap, 900+G /home.
> 
> Swap has its own format, not EXT3, and I do believe you need
> a /boot partition.

You don't *need* a /boot partition. I have one on my Debian distro but
not on the other 3 Ubuntus. 

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Bob Holtzman
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