On Sun, Aug 25, 2002 at 08:34:40AM -0700, Josh Rehman wrote: > Hello, > > I'm contemplating a switch to Debian 3.0 from Mandrake 8.2, but I am > hesitant because it appears that the 2.4 kernel is not supported by > default and hence, IIRC, ext3 is not supported. IMHO ext3 is the best > thing since sliced bread - no more unrecoverable fsck errors - and it's > a pity that Debian doesn't support it out of the box. > > There is no mention of ext3 at this location: > http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/i386/ch-partitioning.en.html > > So I have two questions: > 1 - WHY don't the Debian powers-that-be consider the 2.4 kernel 'mature > enough' for Debian 3.0? I dunno, but Debian does run on 10 other architectures aside from x86, so maybe it doesn't work everywhere... > 2 - HOW can I install Debian 3.0 with a 2.4 kernel and an ext3 > filesystem? I've installed Debian twice in the past couple of months, and I'm fairly sure that the disks I had supported both ext3 and ReiserFS during install. As someone else said, you want the bf2.4 flavour which you can download from Debian or one of the mirrors, or, IIRC, boot directly into with x86 CD4(?). I'm fairly sure noone actually runs the install kernel after the install is complete, anyhow. I compile my own, but others install kernel-image-2.4.19-686. It'll work with ext3 among thousands of other things, I'm sure;) -rob
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