Hi Erich,
On Sun, Jan 04, 2004 at 07:24:59PM +0100, Erich Waelde wrote:
> I have successfully installed a xfs based system. Details see
> below. I was very pleased with the installer image! Thanks!
Glad to hear it!
> Initial boot worked: [O]
> Configure network HW: [O]
> Config network: [O]
> Detect CD: [O]
> Load installer modules: [O]
> Detect hard drives: [O]
> Partition hard drives: [O]
> Create file systems: [E] mkfs.xfs -f needed
> Mount partitions: [O]
> Install base system: [O]
> Install boot loader: [O]
> Reboot: [O]
> [O] = OK, [E] = Error (please elaborate below), [ ] = didn't try it
> Comments/Problems:
> * Configure and mount partitions
> hda7 xfs /
> hda2 swap
> on second attempt to format already formatted xfs partition
> error: mkfs.xfs: Use the -f option to force overwrite
> workaround: issue command on shell, redo with "leave filesystem
> intact"
Yes, I'd gotten another report of this as well. It looks like this is
just a 3-line change to partconf (per-fs options are already supported
for reiserfs's sake). I'll commit this change as soon as alioth CVS is
back up, and roll another image set with a locally-built partconf.
> * xfs
> I saw "fsck.xfs not found" in the smoke test reboot, and
> thereafter. I installed xfsprogs (which were not automatically
> installed). I cannot see the error, nor can I find it in
> /var/log/{boot,messages,syslog}
Ah, I hadn't thought of that. I'm not sure how this is handled for
other non-default filesystem types. I'll take a look at getting
xfsprogs installed by default in such a case.
It's not like fsck.xfs is really needed, so I was ignoring those errors
as they scrolled by. ;)
> * install a kernel:
> the correct kernel was marked as default.
Wonderful!
> Other than that, I did have only minor problems, which are not
> related to the xfs stuff, as far as I can tell:
And those seem to be outside my realm of expertise, so hopefully others
here will be able to speak to them.
> * devfs
> devfs does no seem to be mounted without
> me installing and activating devfsd
> is this the way it's supposed to be?
Yes, even though devfs is needed by the installer, it's not mounted by
default by any of the kernels post-install.
Cheers,
--
Steve Langasek
postmodern programmer
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