Thanks, that is certainly helpful, but that only mounts one directory (partition) as Reiser4.
This I have already done. I was more interested in how to have a whole partition dedicated to Reiser4 and being able to boot into it. By any chance did you do that? On Sat, 28 Apr 2007 00:37:05 +0800, "Jeff Chua" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > On 4/27/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Hi Jeff, could you outline the procedure that YOU used to get Reiser4 > > installed and running. > > Pretty much the same as the steps from ... > http://linuxhelp.150m.com/installs/compile-kernel.htm > > cd /usr/src > tar --use=bzip2 -xpf linux-2.6.21.tar.bz2 > ln -nsf linux-2.6.21 linux > cd /usr/src/linux > bzip2 -d -c /tmp/reiser4-for-2.6.20.patch.bz2 | patch -p1 > # copy your old .config here > make menuconfig > File systems ---> > <*> Reiser4 (EXPERIMENTAL) > make > make modules_install > # copy ./i386/boot/bzImage to the boot directory > # reboot > > > # download, compile and install ... > libaal-1.0.5.tar.gz > reiser4progs-1.0.6.tar.gz > > I got them from ftp://ftp.namesys.com/pub/reiser4progs/ > > Take an unused partition, and create reiser4fs on it... > > mkfs.reiser4 /dev/sda8 > mount /dev/sda8 /mnt > > Or you may want to try it on a loop device ... > > dd if=/dev/zero of=disk1 bs=1024k count=100 > mkfs.reiser4 -yf disk1 > mount -o loop disk1 /u0 > > Here's an entry in /etc/fstab > /dev/sda8 /u3 reiser4 noatime 0 0 > > > I hope this is good enough to get you started. > > Thanks, > Jeff. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- http://www.fastmail.fm - And now for something completely differentÂ… - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
