Re: [newbie] Possibly OT? MDK Partitioning

2002-05-31 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Thursday 30 May 2002 05:13 pm, Michael Adams wrote: On Thu, 30 May 2002 22:50, et wrote: the file system for / and /boot need to be compiled into the kernal, not loaded as a module, that was (as I understand it) the reason not to use reiserFS for those partitions. however in later

Re: [newbie] Possibly OT? MDK Partitioning

2002-05-31 Thread civileme
Tom Brinkman wrote: On Thursday 30 May 2002 05:13 pm, Michael Adams wrote: On Thu, 30 May 2002 22:50, et wrote: the file system for / and /boot need to be compiled into the kernal, not loaded as a module, that was (as I understand it) the reason not to use reiserFS for those partitions.

Re: [newbie] Possibly OT? MDK Partitioning

2002-05-31 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Friday 31 May 2002 11:02 am, civileme wrote: Tom Brinkman wrote: I've never had a problem with ReiserFS loaded as a module with /boot being ReiserFS (or XFS). I see this /boot can't be Reiser, or even /boot must be ext2 all the time. I don't know where it comes from, or why

Re: [newbie] Possibly OT? MDK Partitioning

2002-05-30 Thread Michael Adams
On Thu, 30 May 2002 11:18, Dale Huckeby wrote: On Wed, 29 May 2002, Michael Adams wrote: On Wed, 29 May 2002 13:58, FemmeFatale wrote: I've run 8.0, 8.1 now 8.2. Always I've accepted the default install partitions of root (/), swap home. the one time I tried on 8.0 to make a

Re: [newbie] Possibly OT? MDK Partitioning

2002-05-29 Thread Michael Adams
On Wed, 29 May 2002 13:58, FemmeFatale wrote: I've run 8.0, 8.1 now 8.2. Always I've accepted the default install partitions of root (/), swap home. the one time I tried on 8.0 to make a boot, root, swap, var other partitions, the boot partition was blank. As a result the root

Re: [newbie] Possibly OT? MDK Partitioning

2002-05-29 Thread Mark Van Bruggen
On 29/05/2002, The following message was beamed across the Internet: Michael Adams wrote: On Wed, 29 May 2002 13:58, FemmeFatale wrote: I've run 8.0, 8.1 now 8.2. Always I've accepted the default install partitions of root (/), swap home. the one time I tried on 8.0 to make

Re: [newbie] Possibly OT? MDK Partitioning

2002-05-29 Thread John Richard Smith
On Wednesday 29 May 2002 09:52, you wrote: Michael Adams wrote: On Wed, 29 May 2002 13:58, FemmeFatale wrote: I've run 8.0, 8.1 now 8.2. Always I've accepted the default install partitions of root (/), swap home. the one time I tried on 8.0 to make a boot, root, swap, var

Re: [newbie] Possibly OT? MDK Partitioning

2002-05-29 Thread Roger Sherman
On Tue, 28 May 2002, FemmeFatale wrote: I've run 8.0, 8.1 now 8.2. Always I've accepted the default install partitions of root (/), swap home. the one time I tried on 8.0 to make a boot, root, swap, var other partitions, the boot partition was blank. As a result the root directory