Re: Debian alpha install with reiserfs support
Hi!
I have a Miata 433a.
How did u compile the 2.4.21 kernel? When i compile using gcc 2.95 from stable
it hangs when booting at the CMD64x code. (compile as module doesn`t help
because the module segfaults)
Because my CDROM is IDE i need it working. 2.4.20 is the last kernel that runs
ok, but with many kernel unalligned accs in the iptables code :(
On Tuesday 28 October 2003 18:50, Tyson Whitehead wrote:
> I'm running ReiserFS on my PWS500au.
>
> I had quite a time installing, however, as there was some sort of ReiserFS
> bug in the Debian version of kernel 2.4.18 [or somewhere around there] that
> crashed or scrambled data or something. I believe more recent Debian
> versions are fine (I'm currently running a stock 2.4.21 with no problem).
>
> The easiest way to install it is to make 4 partitions. Make the first a
> 20MB one or so (if you are using SRM to boot, remember to leave 512 sectors
> or so unpartitioned at the start for the aboot image). Make the last a
> swap partition. Split the remaining space between the second and third.
>
> Format the third as an ext2 system and install a base system onto it. Once
> installed, get the Reiser utilities and format the second as a ReiserFS.
>
> Copy the /boot directory over to the first and reconfigure aboot to boot
> off of it (abootconf). You need a copy of /etc/aboot.conf on it as well (I
> moved my /etc/aboot.conf to it and simlinked it backed). Copy the root file
> system from third to second (correct fstab and aboot.conf to set the second
> as root).
>
> Reboot and you're done.
>
> -T
>
> PS: If you don't want the third partition anymore (which you can now
> reformat as Reiser), remove it. Take the boot floppies and erase stuff off
> them that you don't need (such as the ext2 utilities). Copy the Reiser
> utilities onto it (this usually requires adding libraries as well -- check
> with ldd).
>
> Boot off the floppy, switch to the console, resize the second partition and
> then use resize_reiserfs to extend the file system to fill it up.
>
> --
> Tyson Whitehead (-twhitehe@uwo.ca -- WSC-)
> Computer Engineer Dept. of Applied Mathematics,
> Graduate Student- Applied Mathematics University of Western Ontario,
> GnuPG Key ID# 0x8A2AB5D8 London, Ontario, Canada
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