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?
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On Thu, May 16, 2002 at 09:03:58AM +0100, Laurie Brown said:
I've been using SuSE since 5.3, but all my servers are going Gentoo now. I'm glad they pushed me into it really, because the bloat in SuSE (and RH,
Mandrake et al) is getting ludicrous. Gentoo takes some getting used to, but I like it so far.
Is it me or everyone is sorta switching to gentoo now? Seems like the reinvented slackware but even better? I'm curious...
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
On Thu, 2002-05-16 at 17:01, Alexis Lee wrote: I haven't quite figured out how to do a direct CD copy yet on
Linux).
Say your source CD ROM is /dev/hdc and your cdwriter is scsi on ID 4
dd if=/dev/hdc of=cd_image.iso cdrecord dev=0,4,0 speed=4 -v -data cd_iamge.iso
or if you have a faster source than destination (and your a little psychopathic) just try it direct:-
cdrecord dev=0,4,0 speed=4 -v -data .dev/hdc
YMMV !!
Mike
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.
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