Quote Originally Posted by Flibble
1) where is /dev/root.OLD phsyically located, i.e., which partition? I assume that's the boot partition, which brings me to my next question...

2) why didn't Knoppix use the boot partition I already had? I
It's mounted at /initrd.
It is not /boot, but /boot/initrd.gz uncompressed to the ramdisk.
You can get rid of that and free the mem by
Code:
# ln -s /etc/init.d/initrd-tools /etc/rc5.d/S99initrd-tools
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