On Mon, 10 Feb 2003, Tim Wunder wrote: > On 2/10/2003 1:09 PM, someone claiming to be Andrew Mathews wrote: > > Net Llama! wrote: > > <snip> > > > >> > >> 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. > > > > > > 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. > > 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. > > > > ooh... > So I could just do the kernel upgrade? > hmmm...
Well, upgrading the kernel isn't going to get you an XFS filesystem. You still can't nondestructive convert to XFS. -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 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
