Re: Good times with md, ReiserFS, and /usr unmountable
Tzafrir Cohen wrote: apt-get install what ever package you need It is only installed on a ramdisk (the one that is union-mounted on top of the compressed file system of the CD), but that doesn't really matter for a one-time shot. As long as you have internet connection there Got that far with Debian Live, and SystemRescueCD has all I need on it. I'm now running in to problems with repairing the superblock on the ReiserFS md device. However, this has gone way too off course for debian-devel. I truly appreciate the help, but I'm going to take this tot he appropriate mailing list (debian-user). Again, many thanks! - Ken -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Good times with md, ReiserFS, and /usr unmountable
Greetings, Debian Etch AMD64 multi-disk ReiserFS Came in to find /dev/md6 wasn't mounted after rebooting the box. Tried to run fsck on it, but fsck.reiserfs was missing because reiserfsprogs wasn't installed. I can't apt-get or dpkg because those tools reside under /usr. This leads to a few questions and possible solutions: 1. Why isn't reiserfsprogs a dependency of the kernel image that has support for it? Shouldn't all file system tools be dependent if the kernel being pushed out to the box supports said file system? How can one fix a file system if they don't have the correct tools to do so? 2. Why is apt-get and dpkg under /usr? Shouldn't they belong under /sbin? If they were, I'd have access to those tools and would be able to dpkg -i reiserfsprogs. I'm going to assume that dependencies for dpkg and apt-get require a lot of stuff that is located under /usr, and those dependencies have no place to be in /sbin. I understand this is -devel and not the standard mailing list where I should ask for support, but any info on how I can recover from this would be greatly appreciated. - Ken -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Good times with md, ReiserFS, and /usr unmountable
Peter Samuelson wrote: The question I'd have is, how did you manage to create the filesystem in the first place? I didn't install the OS. It came from Microway like that. I would boot a CD that includes recovery tools. I'm not sure whether Debian Live includes reiserfsprogs, but that's one place to start looking. That was my first thought, but the device with the corrupt file system is multidisk. How can a LiveCD know about an md config? Thanks, - Ken -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Good times with md, ReiserFS, and /usr unmountable
Josselin Mouette wrote: Software RAID is be automatically detected from the boot sector, hence should be visible from a LiveCD. Debian Live didn't have mdadm. Debian Lenny netinstall found the md's, but didn't have fsck.reiserfs. I'm in the process of burning SystemRescueCD (http://www.sysresccd.org/) to see if it has what I need. - Ken -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
debian-installer: driver disk compatibility
Since Debian isn't really supported by most hardware vendors, it makes it difficult to install the distribution when the kernel on the installation media doesn't support, say, a RAID controller or the IDE chipset... things of that nature. However, hardware vendors over the years are starting to embrace and support some of the other major distributions such as Red Hat, SuSE, and others. What method does Debian have for someone to load a 3rd party module, besides going to another VT and manually doing it? Would it be too much to request that the Debian installer be adjusted to accept 3rd party driver disks designed for other major distributions? For example, lets say I have a new motherboard with a chipset that isn't supported by the current Linux kernel on the Debian installation media. I go to said manufacturers web site and they have downloads for Red Hat and SuSE. I download either of the two, pop in the coughfloppy disk/cough, and Debian is able to determine whether it's designed for distribution X and loads the module. That, in itself, would be the next best thing since the alien package. :-) Best regards, Ken Teague -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
