SCOdera's lack of forsight shouldn't be your burden. AFAIK, all distro's that support XFS natively (and there are more that do, than don't these days) provide ER boot disks/CDs.
On Mon, 23 Dec 2002, Matthew Carpenter wrote: > Add to that the fact that I still use COLW311 CD for my emergency bootloader of >choice, and XFS is not very likely to be supported there. I will have to find a >newer choice soon, but those are the things you might not think of which will bite >you... > > begin Bruce Marshall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > (Mon, 23 Dec 2002 11:26:32 -0500) > > > On Monday 23 December 2002 12:04 pm, Matthew Carpenter wrote: > > > How many stock bootloaders like XFS these days? That's been one of > > > the bigger problems with switching filesystems in the past. I'd have > > > to have an older boot partition and store data on the new FS... Which > > > still causes problems since the system and config is not on the > > > super-duper filesystem. And I'm sorry, but I am still of the opinion > > > that for my purposes I am better off using as much distro-stock as > > > possible. > > > > And add to this the question of how many partition diddlers will handle > > XFS partitions. I don't think either Acronis or Partition Magic will. > > I guess one could rely on Knoppix to do everything but I'm not sure I > > could agree with that. -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Lonni J Friedman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux Step-by-step & TyGeMo http://netllama.ipfox.com _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc -> http://www.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
