Hello, For ages, I've been lurking on nilfs.org looking for some distribution support for NILFS, with little being forthcoming. I resorted to manually transferring installations to NILFS root filesystem based on Ubuntu and Debian install images in the past, but have recently tried LMDE with the hope of modifying it's installer to support NILFS.
Turns out, I didn't need to modify anything, as it pretty much supports installation to NILFS out of the box. Booting from the live CD, I: - In a shell window, run: sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install util-linux nilfs-tools This will install the nilfs compatible blkid (default is 2.17) - Run the installer from the desktop - When partitioning in gparted, just create your NILFS partition as ext4. - Back in the installer, choose the newly created ext4 partition, configure it as / and use the pull down menu to format it as nilfs. - Do the rest of the installation as directed by the installer. Once the installer has finished, you should have your root environment almost ready to go, but not quite. The default install won't include the nilfs2 kernel module in the initramfs, so you'll have to update this by hand before rebooting: - In a shell, mount your new root partition: sudo mount /dev/blah /target - Add the nilfs2 kernel module to the list of modules to include in initramfs: echo nilfs2 | sudo tee -a /target/etc/initramfs-tools/modules - Update initramfs (proc needed): sudo mount --bind /proc /target/proc sudo chroot /target /usr/sbin/update-initramfs -u Reboot, and enjoy your new NILFS root installation. Christian -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-nilfs" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
