On Thu, Oct 16, 2003 at 12:11:55AM -0400, Roberto Sanchez wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >Greetings to all: > > > >I'm planning to install debian and planning to use XFS instead of Ext3, > >does anybody know how to do ti, or know of any advantage of one file > >system over the other, any recomendation will be appretiated. > > > >That's all for the moment, good night to everyone, > > > >Didier. > > > > Here are the steps: > > 1. Download and burn Knoppix CD > 2. Boot Knoppix > 3. Follow instructions for chroot install > (http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/i386/ch-preparing.en.html#s-linux-upgrade) > 4. Substitute XFS for ext3 when formating partitions > 5. Instead of getting stock kernel image, get kernel sources and > kernel-patch-xfs (for 2.4 kernel) or just kernel source (for 2.6 > kernel, which has XFS support as part of the main source tree) > 6. Enjoy your new system.
Or, what I did is get the iso from http://people.debian.org/~blade/XFS-Install/ burn to CD and then install Debian. -- Bill Moseley [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]