Yes, mounting an ext2 fs worked fine. That error doesn't sound right.
Why in the world would it not support ext2fs? Are your dos/windows
filesystem on the same HD?
On Fri, 3 Mar 2000, Alan Shoemaker wrote:
> John....did you actually mount an ext2 file system while booted
> on tomsrtbt? I have a 7895 built into my motherboard and when
> booted on tomsrtbt I can mount dos & windows filesystems but my
> ext2 filesystems error out saying:
>
> EXT2-FS: 08:07: couldn't mount because of unsupported optional
> features
>
> As to what the features are that are unsupported, I've no idea.
> I just installed the system with the install program (DrakX on
> Mandrake 7.0) and didn't pick any optional features that I was
> aware of.
>
> Alan
>
>
> "John D. Kim" wrote:
> >
> > My computer has an adaptec 2940u2w and Tom's dist worked fine. Check the
> > website. I do remember seeing the list of devices supported on the
> > website somewhere.
> >
> > On Tue, 29 Feb 2000, John Aldrich wrote:
> >
> > > On Tue, 29 Feb 2000, you wrote:
> > > > Try the following URL:
> > > > http://www.toms.net/rb/
> > > >
> > > > You could also plug your laptop into a network and run the installation from
> > > > a network.
> > > >
> > > I ran into a situation this weekend where Tom's root/boot
> > > disk might have helped... IF it supports SCSI. DOES Tom's
> > > Root/Boot disk support SCSI drives? I had some problems
> > > booting my system last weekend and wanted to run e2fsck on
> > > the SCSI drive, but didn't have my system boot floppy which
> > > has a kernel with SCSI support on it, and the RedHat boot &
> > > rescue disks don't support SCSI, so I was in trouble.
> > > John
> > >
>
