ANC wrote:

> I only have one primary partition left (sdb1). All others have swap or
> other distros.
>
> FC Install Guide says it MUST have a separate partition for / and for
> /boot. I have no room. Other distros let me install the whole mess to
> one partition (I know the benefits of logical/extended... but that's
> another story.)

It is *really* a suggestion but not required, just like other distros
the boot location can be located under the / (root) filesystem.

$ cat /etc/fstab
# This file is edited by fstab-sync - see 'man fstab-sync' for details
/dev/hda2 / ext3 defaults 1 1
/dev/hda3 swap swap defaults 0 0
/dev/hda5 /home ext3 defaults 1 2
none /dev/pts devpts gid=5,mode=620 0 0
none /dev/shm tmpfs defaults 0 0
none /proc proc defaults 0 0
none /sys sysfs defaults 0 0
/dev/hdc /media/cdrecorder auto noauto,user,ro 0 0
/dev/sda /mnt/usb_floppy auto noauto,user,rw 0 0
/dev/sda1 /mnt/usb auto noauto,user,rw 0 0
/dev/sdb1 /mnt/usb2 auto noauto,user,rw 0 0
/dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy auto noauto,owner 0 0

$ ls -l /
total 144
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Aug 10 22:26 bin
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Aug 10 22:17 boot


# cat /etc/grub.conf



title Fedora Core (2.6.12.4)
root (hd0,1)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.12.4 ro root=/dev/hda2 vga=791 quiet
initrd /boot/initrd-2.6.12.4.img


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