Here's a good one. :) Someone sent an email to our local LUG's message board asking if someone could help install Debian on his 486 ThinkPad laptop. Being the good Debianite, and having a local Debian mirror thanks to apt-move I said "Sure I can help." The machine has no cdrom and no floppy drive, but it does have a pcmcia NE2000 compat. NIC. So it's a pure network install. No problem. Unfortunately, the machine is currently running screwy Mandrake 7.0. Screwy, because it has no e2fs filesystems, and because Mandrake is 586 optimized. The kernel is a 2.2.16 with reiserfs. /etc/fstab looks like this: /dev/hda3 / reiserfs defaults 0 0 /dev/hda1 /boot vfat defaults 0 0 /dev/hda2 swap swap defaults 0 0
There used to be a /dev/hda4 /home reiserfs. I took that out because I wanted to make /dev/hda5 a reiser and hda6 an e2fs. Alas, no mkfs! I got the SRPM for e2fs progs. It's building as I write this. I also got the reiserfs-utils source to build also. This guy really wante reiserfs, and I'm eager to check it out myself. I was planning on installing onto /dev/hda6 (the e2fs), install a reiserfs kernel, then cp -rf the new / to the current /, a reiserfs. Of course, it would be easier to install directly to the reiserfs. So I've taken a while to ask the simple question - Is there a reiserfs root.bin and rescue.bin and of course a reiserfs kernel? <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
