On Wed, 2006-11-15 at 14:55 +0100, Luciano Mannucci wrote: > On Tue, 14 Nov 2006 23:04:11 -0500 > "Bryan S. Tyson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Would'nt it be nice to have a path to switch to ext3 the machines > > > that have been installed with ReiserFs? > > > > Here is how I made the switch: > > > > 1. Backup data > > 2. mkfs.ext3 > > 3. Restore data > You're lucky. > > My mileage has been a bit longer: > > 1 - Backup the data. > 2 - restart from installation CD (remember: it's the root filesystem) > 3 - mkfs.ext3 and mount the partition under /mnt > 4 - Restore data and edit /mnt/etc/fstab > 5 - Try to reboot and get "cannot mount root filesystem" > 6 - Reboot from installation CD. > 7 - Mount the partition > 8 - chroot /mnt > 9 - launch mkinitrd && lilo > 10 - Try to reboot and get "cannot mount" error again > (Once intalled, the system changes kernel version at the first > update, so mkinitrd from the CD does'nt do the right thing) > 11 - redo point 2 for the third time > 12 - remount partition && chroot /mnt again > 13 - edit /sbin/mkinitrd to make it do the right thing (it's a shell script) > 14 - launch it && lilo again. > 15 - reboot. > > luciano.
This has me curious about one thing. Would it not be possible to create the required root partition and rsync the data back onto it, from a removable media or mounted .iso image? -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
