Re: Installing with 2.4 and ReiserFS
On 30 Jun 2001 16:45:37 +1000, Mikael Gustaf Claesson wrote:
> I've ordered a new notebook, and I was thinking that maybe I should try
> installing Debian. But I need kernel 2.4 and I want to use ReiserFS. Does
> that mean that I have to install from sid? And will that mean that the
> system will be very unstable? In that case I'll probably just go with
> Mandrake instead. What do you people think?
I've now converted all my boxes over to using Reiserfs as the boot
filesystem. I was lucky enough to avoid all the initial data corruption
bugs by instantly upgrading them to 2.4.5 (and the 2.4.5 patch from
www.namesys.com). I thought through trying to upgrade them but decided
that because they weren't very customised that a backup of the data and
a reinstall was the best option.
I can't remember where I obtained everything but here's what you can do:
Grab the latest Debian reiserfs boot disks and use them to do the
install. Then you'll have reiserfs as your boot partition the _easy_
way.
Then add bunk's 2.4 utilities to your path. Do a distribution upgrade
(apt-get -u dist-upgrade) and then you'll be able to compile/install a
2.4.5 kernel.
At this point you're _still_ using stable. If you want the cutting edge
software like I do then add the testing/unstable paths to your
sources.list. So far it has been great apart from the pam update. And I
could have avoided that if I'd paid attention to the lists instead of
just blindly upgrading ASAP. If you pay attention to what you're
upgrading I'd say even non-critical servers could be run on unstable,
especially if you have a reason to use the latest applications (as I
do).
Unstable is the most modern distribution there is. I get to use all the
latest software all the time without waiting for a new distribution
every six months or so. It's fantastic (thanks everyone).
By the way, "testing" is the least secure Debian distribution (something
I was surprised to discover a few weeks ago). Both stable and unstable
get security updates very quickly. It can take a while for the unstable
updates to filter though to testing.
Regards,
Adam
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