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 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.
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, so I'd suggest using SuSe or Mandrake or whatever to set these up before booting the Debian CD. Once you've installed the basic system, Debian will start dselect for you to add extra packages - don't bother unless you know what you need, because you can just 'apt-get install xyz' afterwards.
I used to like Mandrake, but I love Debian.
Alexis