On Sat, Feb 02, 2002 at 09:06:46 -0900, Greg C. Madden wrote: > On Sat, 2002-02-02 at 05:11, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Is it possible to choose ReiserFS in the 2.2r5 setup routine as standard > > Filesystem instead of ext2 ? > > No, filesystem support is supplied by the kernel and that version of > Debian does not use a kernel with Reiser support.
There are unofficial boot-floppies for potato available that do offer installation on reiserfs: http://freshmeat.net/projects/debian-reiser/ Personally, I currently prefer ext3. Reiserfs has a nice design, but its fsck is reportedly very immature compared to the ext[23] one, so that if things do go wrong, they tend to go wrong extremely thoroughly. For an ext3 install of potato, just do a regular install of potato on ext2, upgrade to Adrian Bunk's update packages for running a 2.4 kernel, build a 2.4 kernel, tune2fs -j your ext2 partitions, edit fstab, boot to the new kernel. HTH, Ray -- Ziff Davis is so obviously biased to Microsoft in almost everything they publish, that they might as well change their company name to MS-PRAVDA. Darryl Householder commenting on extreme PC Week FUD (http://linuxtoday.com/story.php3?sn=21049&showcomments=flat)
