Re: Woody XFS file system support

[Gerald Waugh <gwaugh@frontstreetnetworks.com>]

On Sun, 12 Dec 2004, Andreas Janssen wrote:

> Hello
>
> Gerald Waugh (<gwaugh@frontstreetnetworks.com>) wrote:
>
> > I am running 2.4.19
> > I found googling that 2.4.27 has XFS built in...
> >
> > Please excuse my ignorance, but how would I update my kernel to
> > 2.4.27. I have to have XFS so I can save some data from an XFS hard
> > drive.
>
> If you only need to access the drive once, you could use some live-CD
> like Knoppix. If you really want to install kernel 2.4.27, I recomment
> you get the precompiled packages from <http://www.backports.org>.

thanks,
I did find the sources at backports.org,
I need to access XFS just once in a while, will Knoppix handle xfs file
system? I'll search for a Knoppix ISO, unless you know where I can
download one.

Thanks again,
Gerald