On Mon, 1 Jan 2001 at 20:43, Ian C. Sison wrote:
>Installing reiser in place will give you a lot of headaches (if it is
>even possible).
While moving an existing system from ext2 to ReiserFS is not entirely
"plug-and-play", it is possible (I've done it on two RedHat boxes, one
RedHat 6.2 and one semi-upgraded RedHat 6.0). I've found that the tricky
part is migrating the root partition. Everything else is just a matter of
backup-mkreiserfs-restore. For the root partition, because I did not have
a second hard drive, I had to use the partition for /home as a temporary
root partition, boot, shift things around, et al. Pretty fun. :-)
>I suggest getting another hard disk, install mandrake, and migrate over
>your configs from the old redhat box into the mandrake box.
Ahh, all this talk converting people from one distribution to another. I
think this divides the Linux community instead of doing it good. It's like
telling someone to "go Windows, everything else is just a waste of time".
No offense meant. It's just that I've found it beneficial to allow a
person his/her preference in distribution. ReiserFS is NOT
distribution-specific. It patches the Linux kernel which is universal as
far as the "Linux universe" is concerned. :-)
>Don't install in place, if you custom build your kernel, you be at a
>loss when redhat releases a kernel update and you can't use it because
>of course the reiser module isn't shipped along with redhat kernels.
I've never really liked RedHat's (or anybody else's) bloated kernel.
They've got too many things I don't use, and lack some things I do. I've
configured and built my own customized kernels since I learned where to
get them. How to was easy. "make (x)(menu)config; make dep; make bzImage;
make modules_install;". Reading the config documents that come with the
kernel source was fun, too. :)
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