Thanks to Civileme's recent note (and some old ones as well) I finally have my triple boot (RH 7.1/Mandrake 8.2/Win98) system set up. Pretty straightforward really once the wisdom from the list has a chance to ferment a bit!
I do have one problem, however. When I installed Mdk 8.2 I used a XFS filesystem for the / partition. RH can't see it. I know that I can find a module for the RH kernel and add it (although I don't know how to do it). I could also backup the Mandrake partition, which is on hda to hdb, and reformat the hda partition. I tried doing that by invoking another clean install (leaving /home intact). I ran DiskDrake (well it was invoked during the installation), selected the ext3 filetype and told it to reformat. Everthing looked fine but when I rebooted after the installation I got a kernel panic and frozen machine. I couldn't figure a way around it so reinstalled by reformatting the partition XFS. Is there some residual config file, pointer or kernel configuration that's telling the system that I have an XFS partition even after reformatting it ext3? More generally, what's the best way of dealing with this? I'm afraid if I do a tar of the all the directories in / I may have a problem with the /proc or /dev directories when I restore. I don't think DD would work as a backup mechanism in this instance as (I think) it will do a binary copy and just copy the old journaling system (XFS) back onto the new one (ext3). Thus, I'm left with reinstalling Mandrake but we've got this residual XFS hangup. Any thoughts guys and gals? Terry Smith Cape Cod USA
Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
