Re: Partition scheme for Debian installation
Wei Wang....
> BTW, I am a bit confused about which flavor I should choose:
>
> I've read the installation manual and found out there are 4 flavors for
i386
> architecture. The main
> difference seems to me is that:
>
> vanillar: standard kernel package, almost all drivers built as
> modules
> compact: built in support for popular PCI Ethernet devices, supports
> common RAIDcontrollers
> idepci supports only IDE and PCI devices
> bf2.4 EXPERIMENTAL, but support newer hardware compoonets,
> supports EXT3 and Reiser file system
>
>
> I tend to choose bf2.4 for it's newer hardware support and EXT3
journalling
> file system. But the word "experimental"
> scares me a bit.
>
I installed successfully using vanilla (kernel 2.2.20) but later had to get
kernel 2.4.18-i686 in place to support ext3.
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Alphonse Ogulla mailto:aogulla@kenyalinux.or.ke
Nairobil, Kenya http://www.kenyalinux.or.ke
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