-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 I just finished trying the new installer (from unstable). Works great -- except it won't let me do an installation to ReiserFS (I wound up moving the results over to ReiserFS with tar once the installation completed -- what a pain)! Spent a day digging around and finally came across the reason in bug report 251083:
> reassign -1 linux-kernel-di-alpha > retitle -1 dont provide reiserfs modules > thanks > > * Helge Kreutzmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004-05-26 18:15]: > > > For root, you mean? > > > > In generally the consensus seems that Reiser should be avoided on > > alpha (at least on rh-axp and debian-alpha), for any partition. > > In this case, no reiserfs modules should be provided for alpha. > (Maybe the same goes for XFS.) I must say I would very much disagree and would like to see this reversed! I did have some problems with kernel 2.4.18 when I first installed it (nearly two years ago), but have been using it exclusively ever since on about five Alpha boxes (with various 2.4.18+ and 2.6.x kernel versions) and have had absolutely no problem at all. Could others please share their (semi recent) experiences? Thanks & Later! -T PS: Apart from not being able to install under my favorite filesystem, the new installer works great (I did both a bootp/tftp and a cdrom-mini install on a PWS500au)! Congrats to all involved. : ) PPS: Maybe there should be a note somewhere in the guide that says you (or at least I had to) to pass "root=/dev/ram ramdisk_size=16384 devfs=mount,dall" in the flags when booting off a network device to do a bootp/tftp install... - -- Tyson Whitehead (-twhitehe at uwo.ca -- WSC-) Computer Engineer Dept. of Applied Mathematics, Graduate Student- Applied Mathematics University of Western Ontario, GnuPG Key ID# 0x8A2AB5D8 London, Ontario, Canada -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.5 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFB5wwgRXbLmIoqtdgRAkM/AKCLUOiTFZ4Vs2Y7svYyEPadUOBoMgCeISU5 YClv1Y7AadKeBs27PjIQHeA= =42lA -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
