Alexis Lee wrote:
On Thu, 2002-05-16 at 14:23, alasdair.i.macleod@bt.com wrote:
Maybe you SuSE vets could cast some light here ...
I can't get SuSE to install using ReiserFS partitions. Everytime, at some point during the package copying process the install hangs - I've seen other people report the problem but haven't seen any fixes/explanations. Anyone know anything?
I realise this isn't quite what you're asking, but then you haven't quite been listening either...
These guys are saying why _not_ to run SuSe, and that Gentoo/Debian are
Quite...
the way to go. Similarly, ReiserFS has pretty much had its day now that ext3 is out. I don't know what the performance situation is but the ease of migration and wide availability of analysis tools make ext3 a killer.
I use ext2 for /boot, ext3 for everything else (except swap, of course). ReiserFS ian't goodness, even if it is SuSE's default fs.
My advice would be to install Debian on ext2 partitions, from a Debian CD which any one of these kind folks would be happy to send you (except me cause I haven't quite figured out how to do a direct CD copy yet on Linux). Then compile ext3 into the kernel using 'make-kpkg --config menuconfig kernel-image', install, reboot and use 'tune2fs -j /dev/hdaX' (X = partition number) to add a journal to each partition.
The one part of the Debian install I really dislike is the partitioning,
We use sfdisk, which is great if one is making several identical machines. One can save the partition table to a file, and then use that repeatedly on identical disks.
Cheers, Laurie.