091215 James wrote: > I upgraded a kde3 system to kde4. Along the way, > to get past blocking, I had to install device-mapper. > This particular system is all reiserf, except for the swap partition. > Baselayout is 1.12.13 is installed. All is good. Yesterday, > I had to remove device-mapper to so that udev-146-r1 could install. > reading a little bit on this, it seems that I must have lvm2 installed? > lvm2 is installed so all is cool? > Also, I have e2fsprogs installed, but I do not think I need it, > but is it a good idea to just leave it installed? > I do periodically connect other hard drives to recover files and data, > using a usb-2-ide(or sata) cable on this system, > so ext2/3/4 support is probably a good idea, but is it absolutely required? > This is a critical system for me, so I just want to make sure > I'm not missing anything on the 'sunset' of device-mapper. > I have not reboot yet, since all of these changes.....
I did the same steps last Saturday & have had no problems. I do need Ext2 for my /boot partition, which is normally not mounted; otherwise, I use Reiserfs + Lvm2 . BTW you can continue to use a few KDE 3 apps alongside KDE 4 : you need to have separate dirs ~/.kde3.5 & ~/.kde4 . -- ========================,,============================================ SUPPORT ___________//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cities Centre, University of Toronto TRANSIT `-O----------O---' purslowatchassdotutorontodotca
