Fw: Sharing swap and /boot

[Jim]

On Wed, 09 Jun 2004 10:03:29 -0400 (EDT) Josh Glover <colug at jmglov.net> wrote:

> you can always let [a linux installer] put /boot on the
> / partition, and then tweak /etc/fstab afterwards.

This can be troublesome with big drives on boxes with old BIOSs.  
/boot is typically in a separate partition, 
so that the entirety of it can be placed at the beginning of a drive.  

Nonetheless, installing /boot to somewhere other than an existing 
/boot partition, and tweaking stuff later is fine.