Re: Migrating a pismo to a journalling filesystem

2001-06-15 Thread Jason E. Stewart
"Ethan Benson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Fri, Jun 15, 2001 at 05:11:11PM -0600, Jason E. Stewart wrote: > > /dev/hda7Apple_Driver_IOKit Macintosh512 @ 520(256.0k) Unknown > > /dev/hda8Apple_Patches Patch Partition 512 @ 1032 (256.0k) Unknown > > /dev/hda9Apple_Boot

Re: Migrating a pismo to a journalling filesystem

2001-06-15 Thread Tom Rini
On Fri, Jun 15, 2001 at 03:11:25PM -0800, Ethan Benson wrote: > its because of these semantic differences in behavior that i > discourage /boot partitions unless they are absolutly necessary (eg > you insist on making / xfs or reiserfs). Also note there are patches for yaboot so that it can rea

Re: Migrating a pismo to a journalling filesystem

2001-06-15 Thread Ethan Benson
On Fri, Jun 15, 2001 at 05:11:11PM -0600, Jason E. Stewart wrote: > /dev/hda7Apple_Driver_IOKit Macintosh512 @ 520(256.0k) Unknown > /dev/hda8Apple_Patches Patch Partition 512 @ 1032 (256.0k) Unknown > /dev/hda9Apple_Bootstrap bootstrap 2400 @ 1544 ( 1.2M) Unknown

Re: Migrating a pismo to a journalling filesystem

2001-06-15 Thread Jason E. Stewart
"Ethan Benson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Fri, Jun 15, 2001 at 06:22:49PM +0200, Andrei Verovski wrote: > > >I've been using an ext2 /boot and a reiserfs /, for over a month using > > >1.2.1. > > > > > > > I'm, too, but on PC. On my iBook Indigo yaboot completely refused to work > > with

Re: Migrating a pismo to a journalling filesystem

2001-06-15 Thread Ethan Benson
On Fri, Jun 15, 2001 at 06:22:49PM +0200, Andrei Verovski wrote: > >I've been using an ext2 /boot and a reiserfs /, for over a month using > >1.2.1. > > > > I'm, too, but on PC. On my iBook Indigo yaboot completely refused to work > with ext2 /boot and reiserfs /root. Tried everything, then just

Re: Migrating a pismo to a journalling filesystem

2001-06-15 Thread Ethan Benson
On Fri, Jun 15, 2001 at 06:22:49PM +0200, Andrei Verovski wrote: > >I've been using an ext2 /boot and a reiserfs /, for over a month using > >1.2.1. > > > > I'm, too, but on PC. On my iBook Indigo yaboot completely refused to work > with ext2 /boot and reiserfs /root. Tried everything, then just

Re: Migrating a pismo to a journalling filesystem [Resend]

2001-06-15 Thread Andrei Verovski
This is a resend of a message originally sent on Friday, June 15, 2001 9:56:51 >I have 2 questions: > >One: How would I migrate my pismo to a journalling filesystem. I'm not >up to date on the current install images, can I just reinstall with a >newer CD and magically put root on a no

Re: Migrating a pismo to a journalling filesystem

2001-06-15 Thread Andrei Verovski
>I've been using an ext2 /boot and a reiserfs /, for over a month using >1.2.1. > I'm, too, but on PC. On my iBook Indigo yaboot completely refused to work with ext2 /boot and reiserfs /root. Tried everything, then just erased ext2 /boot. Seems like black magic rather than technology rigth now.

Re: Migrating a pismo to a journalling filesystem

2001-06-15 Thread Jason E. Stewart
"Ethan Benson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Fri, Jun 15, 2001 at 12:09:03PM +0200, Andrei Verovski wrote: > > > > The current yaboot with reiserfs patch (avavilable on SuSE ftp) does NOT > > supports yet separate /boot ext2 and root reiserfs partitions (it throws > > in open formware). You

Re: Migrating a pismo to a journalling filesystem

2001-06-15 Thread Ethan Benson
On Fri, Jun 15, 2001 at 12:09:03PM +0200, Andrei Verovski wrote: > >your probably better off leaving your root partition small, and ext2 > >(so you can boot, yaboot doesn't support anything but ext2 right > >now. (yes i know about the unofficial reiser patch, it needs testing > >first)). then if y

Re: Migrating a pismo to a journalling filesystem

2001-06-15 Thread Andrei Verovski
>your probably better off leaving your root partition small, and ext2 >(so you can boot, yaboot doesn't support anything but ext2 right >now. (yes i know about the unofficial reiser patch, it needs testing >first)). then if you create the rest of your partitions strategecly >you can backup say /va

Re: Migrating a pismo to a journalling filesystem

2001-06-15 Thread Ethan Benson
On Fri, Jun 15, 2001 at 12:30:31AM -0500, Brian Hicks wrote: > I have 2 questions: > > One: How would I migrate my pismo to a journalling filesystem. I'm not > up to date on the current install images, can I just reinstall with a > newer CD and magically put root on a non ext2 filesystem? cvs b

Re: Migrating a pismo to a journalling filesystem

2001-06-15 Thread Andrei Verovski
>I have 2 questions: > >One: How would I migrate my pismo to a journalling filesystem. I'm not >up to date on the current install images, can I just reinstall with a >newer CD and magically put root on a non ext2 filesystem? > >Two: XFS or Reiser? ReiserFS PPC instruction available at my web si

Migrating a pismo to a journalling filesystem

2001-06-15 Thread Brian Hicks
I have 2 questions: One: How would I migrate my pismo to a journalling filesystem. I'm not up to date on the current install images, can I just reinstall with a newer CD and magically put root on a non ext2 filesystem? Two: XFS or Reiser? -- Brian Hicks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "Crush the lesser