Re: [newbie] reiserFS and RH

2001-08-19 Thread s
On Sunday 19 August 2001 07:53 pm, you wrote: someone told me that ReiserFS was not compatible w/RH. since I have nt tried RH since RH5 something I had no idea, Any one know ? yep that's what I understand. they consider it still experimental so it's not offered. -s Want to buy your

Re: [newbie] reiserFS and RH

2001-08-19 Thread Erylon Hines
I can tell you that on their latest 7.1 install disks it is NOT offered as an option. For the record, I've been using it on some of my systems for over 6 months, and the only problem I've had is, in the event of a crash, if I'm using the NT bootloader on a dual boot system, I have to use the

Re: [newbie]:reiserfs+e2fs mixed system

2001-07-13 Thread Michel Clasquin
On Friday 13 July 2001 13:32, Alan Smith wrote: Hi All My mdk8.0 system is set up using the e2fs file system mainly because i thougth I read somewhere that reiserfs could not read the windows partition/disk. I do have occasional power failures however and the reiserfs sys would be more

Re: [newbie]:reiserfs+e2fs mixed system

2001-07-13 Thread Terry A. Bowling
I'm thinking that they've got the Reiser FS working just fine. I installed Mandrake8.0 on my laptop as a single partition / and it's RFS - I've let my batter die and I've forced an improper reboot and it's never failed me. I also installed my home desktop with 5 partitions: /boot, /, /var,

Re: [newbie] reiserfs and new kernel

2001-04-24 Thread Mark Weaver
8.0 doesn't sound like very much fun. i think i'm going to stay with 7.2 for a while. so you're saying that you installed the 2.2.19-kernel-src rpm and then compiled it? -- Mark * what knowledge I have managed to accumlate over the years at times becomes obscured and even hidden amidst

Re: [newbie] reiserfs and new kernel

2001-04-23 Thread s
Geez, silly me. conk Thnx, -s On Sunday 22 April 2001 09:05 pm, you wrote: You can see it in Disk Free (in Applications --Monitoring) or /etc/fstab On Tuesday 24 April 2001 07:23, you wrote: 2.4.3-13mdk.And another question if you please: I loaded 8.0 last night, and I don't

Re: [newbie] reiserfs and new kernel

2001-04-23 Thread Michael Scottaline
s [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 2.4.3-13mdk.And another question if you please: I loaded 8.0 last night, and I don't remember if I used reiserfs or not [yes, I am blond :-) ]. How can one tell which fs they are using? I think I did, so my first question is still very relevant.

Re: [newbie] reiserfs and new kernel

2001-04-23 Thread Mark Weaver
umhuh? -- Mark * what knowledge I have managed to accumlate over the years at times becomes obscured and even hidden amidst the vast emotional onslaught of my children. You never finish being a parent. :) On Mon, 23 Apr 2001, robert wydler haduch wrote: At 12:47 PM 4/22/2001 -0400,

Re: [newbie] reiserfs and new kernel

2001-04-23 Thread Mark Weaver
s, it would appear from the information you supplied that you didn't compile the kernel but rather installed the RPM package version. if that is correct then you did what I did last week and now you've got a mess. if you're running Mandrake 8.0 I'm not sure what to tell you since I'm still

RE: [newbie] reiserfs and new kernel

2001-04-23 Thread Mark Weaver
Hans, that little message indicates that you have installed and are running the Reiser file system. -- Mark * what knowledge I have managed to accumlate over the years at times becomes obscured and even hidden amidst the vast emotional onslaught of my children. You never finish being a

Re: [newbie] reiserfs and new kernel

2001-04-23 Thread s
Well, actually, yeah they were rpms, but you still have to make xconfig, make dep, etc, etc, I chose reiserfs as a module. But when I booted, I got an error. And then it (something) wanted to rename my cdrom, floppy, and zip from /mnt/s to /dev/s. Weird sh*t. I've compiled several

Re: [newbie] reiserfs and new kernel

2001-04-22 Thread s
2.4.3-13mdk.And another question if you please: I loaded 8.0 last night, and I don't remember if I used reiserfs or not [yes, I am blond :-) ]. How can one tell which fs they are using? I think I did, so my first question is still very relevant. Thnx, -s On Sunday 22 April 2001 11:47

Re: [newbie] reiserfs and new kernel

2001-04-22 Thread Sam
You can see it in Disk Free (in Applications --Monitoring) or /etc/fstab On Tuesday 24 April 2001 07:23, you wrote: 2.4.3-13mdk.And another question if you please: I loaded 8.0 last night, and I don't remember if I used reiserfs or not [yes, I am blond :-) ]. How can one tell which fs

Re: [newbie] ReiserFS, Nvidia Driver, X 4.0.2 and 3d acceleration

2001-02-28 Thread abe
I did but I'll double check. Thanks for the idea! Abe Adam Greene wrote: Kill the non-NVidia GL libraries as per NVidia's FAQ. - Original Message - From: "Digital Wokan" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, February 27, 2001 9:15 PM Subject: R

Re: [newbie] ReiserFS, Nvidia Driver, X 4.0.2 and 3d acceleration

2001-02-27 Thread Adam Greene
Yes, I'm running Mandrak 7.2, NVidia (Geforce2 MX), and ReiserFS. I hand installed my XFree86 4.0.2 and get the source RPMs, ran rpm --rebuild NVIDIA_kernel*, installed the resulting RPM (found in /usr/src/RPM/RPMS) and then ran rpm --install NVIDIA_GLX*, and then rebooted the computer for good

Re: [newbie] ReiserFS, Nvidia Driver, X 4.0.2 and 3d acceleration

2001-02-27 Thread Michael Leone
- Original Message - From: "abe" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, February 27, 2001 4:55 AM Subject: [newbie] ReiserFS, Nvidia Driver, X 4.0.2 and 3d acceleration Does this work? Any body have this working on their machines? I reinstalled to convert to ReiserFS

Re: [newbie] ReiserFS, Nvidia Driver, X 4.0.2 and 3d acceleration

2001-02-27 Thread David Boles
Did NvIdia ever fix the problem with DPMS? It would not let the monitor go into grren mode. -Original Message- From: Adam Greene Sent: Tue, 27 Feb 2001 07:28:26 -0400 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Re: [newbie] ReiserFS, Nvidia Driver, X 4.0.2 and 3d acceleration Yes, I'm running

Re: [newbie] ReiserFS, Nvidia Driver, X 4.0.2 and 3d acceleration

2001-02-27 Thread abe
did that. the only error that I saw that might be causing this is an informational about agp being disabled and this one: "(WW) NVIDIA(0): Failure reading EDID parameters for head 0." I'm, gonna try the xfree86 people with this one. Abe Michael Leone wrote: - Original Message

Re: [newbie] ReiserFS, Nvidia Driver, X 4.0.2 and 3d acceleration

2001-02-27 Thread abe
ok well thats good news. That means I probably did somehting wrong. Cool. Its fixable! I've had my geforce card for a few months now and had it working great. In fact with the 0.9.5 nvidia drivers I get better performance then in windows by about 25%!! I re-installed to change to reiser and

Re: [newbie] ReiserFS, Nvidia Driver, X 4.0.2 and 3d acceleration

2001-02-27 Thread Digital Wokan
Everything but ReiserFS on my system going fine. Did you do anything about the non-nVidia MesaGL libraries so they wouldn't conflict with nVidia's drivers? (I'll let you know about ReiserFS someday soon, but it won't be under Mdk7.2.) abe wrote: Does this work? Any body have this working on

Re: [newbie] ReiserFS, Nvidia Driver, X 4.0.2 and 3d acceleration

2001-02-27 Thread Adam Greene
Kill the non-NVidia GL libraries as per NVidia's FAQ. - Original Message - From: "Digital Wokan" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, February 27, 2001 9:15 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] ReiserFS, Nvidia Driver, X 4.0.2 and 3d acceleration Everything but Reis

Re: [newbie] ReiserFS

2000-12-20 Thread A V Flinsch
On Wednesday 20 December 2000 10:46, you wrote: Hi... In the LM7.2 Expert Install there is an option for using "hard drive optimizations". Is this LM's obscure way of referring to ReiserFS? If not, where else in the Installer can one choose ReiserFS? the hard drive optimizations are

Re: [newbie] ReiserFS

2000-12-20 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
These are hdparm (a utility to optimise hard drive speed) settings. It can make a huge difference in performance, but since you don't get to test it first it's better not to select it if you're not sure it'll work. Have a look at http://mandrakeuser.org/hardware/hide2.html for details. On

Re: [newbie] reiserfs

2000-11-23 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Thursday 23 November 2000 08:12 am, Gary de Montigny wrote: Hello, When mounting the reiserfs in your fstab what is the correct label to identify the file system? IE. /dev/hdc5 /var/ftp ext2 defaults 1 2 /dev/hdb6 / reiserfs notail 1 1 That's the line for my drive (Linux is all

Re: [newbie] reiserfs

2000-11-23 Thread Gary de Montigny
Tom Brinkman wrote: /dev/hdb6 / reiserfs notail 1 1 That's the line for my drive (Linux is all in '/') Simple enough. I going to test it on my ftp drive and see what happens. What does the notail mean? Thanks. -- / Gary de Montigny / [EMAIL PROTECTED] / TeleSoft Systems /

Re: [newbie] ReiserFS

2000-11-11 Thread brian
Dave Naylor wrote: So long as you do a custom setup you can set the partition sizes and file systems yourself during installation Brian Mahoney Hi I'm about to take delivery of and then install 7.2, I currently have 7.1. I've decided to do a completely fresh install but I also want to try

Re: [newbie] ReiserFS

2000-11-11 Thread Barry Premeaux
brian wrote: Dave Naylor wrote: So long as you do a custom setup you can set the partition sizes and file systems yourself during installation Brian Mahoney Hi I'm about to take delivery of and then install 7.2, I currently have 7.1. I've decided to do a completely fresh

RE: [newbie] ReiserFS

2000-11-10 Thread Lewis Bishop
The 7.2 install (just did it) lets you do either of those options... manually or automatic... Lewis. -Original Message- From: Dave Naylor [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 09 November 2000 20:05 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] ReiserFS Hi I'm about to take delivery of and then

Re: [newbie] ReiserFS or ext2 ?

2000-10-18 Thread Doug McGarrett
At 10:10 AM 10/16/2000 +0200, someone wrote: I have a Compaq Presario 5726 (unfortunately), and ReiserFS have proved to be the ONLY partitioning system that is stable enough, and with enough errorcorrection - systems to make my machine reliable. The problem is that i somehow loses information

Re: [newbie] ReiserFS or ext2 ?

2000-10-16 Thread Ketil Vestby
I have a Compaq Presario 5726 (unfortunately), and ReiserFS have proved to be the ONLY partitioning system that is stable enough, and with enough errorcorrection - systems to make my machine reliable. The problem is that i somehow loses information about where the harddisk locate some of its

Re: [newbie] ReiserFS or ext2 ?

2000-10-13 Thread Mwinold
In a message dated 10/12/2000 5:44:25 AM Central Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I've read about reiserfs and it seems to be better than ext2... can anyone tell me it's experiences with this file system?? Any problems i could get?? 8-? still in experimental stage if i remember

Re: [newbie] ReiserFS with Automatic install!

2000-06-19 Thread Denis HAVLIK
:~Hi Dr Caracciolo! The Reiser Filesystem handles improper system shutdowns :~far better than does the (current) standard Ext2 filesystem.The improper :~shutdowns, which of course can be caused by a myrid of things like power :~outages or inexperienced Linux users' response to a crashed

Re: [newbie] ReiserFS with Automatic install!

2000-06-17 Thread Piero
On Sat, 17 Jun 2000, you wrote: For anyone who would like to have the ReiserFS in 7.1, and at the sametime do the much easier automatic install, here's what worked for me: First select expert install, and when you get to where you setup your partitions, select ReiserFS as the filesystem

Re: [newbie] ReiserFS with Automatic install!

2000-06-17 Thread Thomas 2
Subject: Re: [newbie] ReiserFS with Automatic install! Date: Sat, 17 Jun 2000 19:32:13 +0200 From: Piero [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] References: 1 On Sat, 17 Jun 2000, you wrote: For anyone who would like to have the ReiserFS in 7.1, and at the sametime do the much easier

Re: [newbie] ReiserFS? how?

2000-06-17 Thread Thomas 2
:~Anyone know how to setup the Reiser Filesystem in 7.1? The LM website says :~to use Diskdrake, but how do I start it? And do you recommed it? someone :~said it's not stable enough yet. Yet I would think it would be safer than :~Ext2 which is more susceptable to FS corruption. Thanks. 19!

Re: [newbie] ReiserFS? how?

2000-06-16 Thread Denis HAVLIK
:~Anyone know how to setup the Reiser Filesystem in 7.1? The LM website says :~to use Diskdrake, but how do I start it? And do you recommed it? someone :~said it's not stable enough yet. Yet I would think it would be safer than :~Ext2 which is more susceptable to FS corruption. Thanks. 19!

Re: [newbie] ReiserFS? how?

2000-06-15 Thread Anthony Huereca
One drawback to it is that there aren't any tools for Windows to access it. I used to use Ghost 6.0 to backup my Linux partitions and unfortunately it doesn't see the reiserFS. Explore-ext2 doesn't work either, obviously. You mean you can view ext2 partitions from Windows using those

Re: [newbie] ReiserFS? how?

2000-06-15 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Thu, 15 Jun 2000, you wrote: One drawback to it is that there aren't any tools for Windows to access it. I used to use Ghost 6.0 to backup my Linux partitions and unfortunately it doesn't see the reiserFS. Explore-ext2 doesn't work either, obviously. You mean you can view ext2