Good ${greeting_time}, Benny!

02 Nov 2016 13:57:28, you wrote to me:

 AV>> JFYI: when the installation program suggests to make separate
 AV>> partition for /boot, you'd better don't use the distribution
 AV>> built by idiots.
 BP> ????????
 BP> if there is old bios that cant see harddisk over cyl 1023 it
 BP> best to make a boot partion where last cyl does not exceed 1024
 BP> is this idiotic ?

Yes - because those BIOSes were found only on i386 and some i486 machines.
Modern (3.* and 4.*) kernels simply wouldn't boot on that hardware.

 BP> possible we are all moved forward, or ?
 BP> just my 2nd hand opinion

Normally, the machine running GNU/Linux should have at least three separate
filesystems (with different mount options): / (defaults), /var (noexec,nodev)
and /home (nosuid,nodev).


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