Net Llama! wrote: <snip>
Correction. I install RH 8.0 natively simply by using the SGI install image. I guess the term "natively" may be questionable since it's not part of the RH distro though.Nope. I'd say the biggest reason is that there isn't any way of installing RH8 natively on XFS. And the fact that RH8 isn't considered to be all that stable. I've intentionally kept all my boxes at 7.3 for those two reasons.
It's at:
ftp://oss.sgi.com/projects/xfs/Release-1.2pre1/installer/forRH-8.0-SGI-XFS-1.2pre1.iso
I also did a kernel upgrade to 2.4.19 using the rpm:
ftp://oss.sgi.com/projects/xfs/Release-1.2pre5/kernel_rpms/RPMS/i686/kernel-2.4.19-SGI_XFS_1.2pre5.i686.rpm
yesterday on one laptop. I'm doing the other one tonight.
I haven't embarked on the task for several reasons, among them: - Patching the RH kernel with XFS, seems non-trivial to me.It is non-trivial. Then again, you can't patch any RH kernel (AFAIK) with the XFS patches. The patches are designed for the vanilla kernel.- I've read that 2.95.x is required for stable kernel building and RH 8.0 only has gcc-3.2.1
I've built several using 3.2 without a problem.
While I use backup tapes, if you have a spare disk you can mount it's quicker and easier.Yea, i read the same, although there are alot of success stories from folks using gcc-3.x.- Need space to copy the data to XFS
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