| Mike Leone on Thu, 28 Nov 2002 11:40:08 -0500 |
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Tobias DiPasquale (toby@cbcg.net) had this to say on 11/28/02 at 11:16: > On Thu, 2002-11-28 at 11:02, Mike Leone wrote: > > I'm trying to install woody (aka Debian v3). Here's the thing - the disk I'm > > using already has ext2 and ReiserFS partitions. I figured I'd just > > initialize the partition (to clear it), and then mount it. But when I tell > > it to initialize a Linux partition, it initializes it as ext2 ... even tho > > fdisk shows it's type as ReiserFS, during the "Partition a hard disk" phase. :-) > > > > So what am I doing wrong? I'd like either ReiserFS or ext3, but the > > initialize partition command seems to want to use ext2. > > I don't think the Debian installer can handle ReiserFS partitions. I > think it only does ext2 and swap. I tried to do a similar thing with > Debian and ext3, and I had to add the journal post-installation because > the installer only handled ext2. I might be wrong on this one, but I've > never heard of anyone doing what you're talking about... How ... non-friendly. :-) So the official CDs don't allow a journalling filesystem to be installed at installation time? Which means if I want ReiserFS or some other journalling fs (JFS, XFS, etc), I'm either out of luck, or need a spare disk to hold the contents of the partition, which I delete and re-make the partition after it's running? And here I thought woody would be a lot better during install than potato was. :-) -- PGP Fingerprint: 0AA8 DC47 CB63 AE3F C739 6BF9 9AB4 1EF6 5AA5 BCDF Member, LEAF Project <http://leaf.sourceforge.net> AIM: MikeLeone Public Key - <http://www.mike-leone.com/~turgon/turgon-public-key.asc> Registered Linux user# 201348 Attachment:
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