partitioning new installation

[James Knott]

James Knott wrote:
> Tim Writer wrote:

>> Probably not. In general, /etc must be part of the / file system. Otherwise
>> init (/sbin/init) won't be able to read its configuration file (/etc/inittab)
>> until after /etc has been mounted. Since, init is responsibe for starting the
>> init scripts which check and mount file systems, you have a chicken and egg
>> problem.
>>
> 
> I have a spare system here.  I'll have to give it a try and see what
> happens.

I just installed SUSE 10 again, with all but /boot on LVM partitions.
It appears OK so far.

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