Re: Good times with md, ReiserFS, and /usr unmountable

2008-09-13 Thread Ken Teague
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

Good times with md, ReiserFS, and /usr unmountable

2008-09-12 Thread Ken Teague
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

Re: Good times with md, ReiserFS, and /usr unmountable

2008-09-12 Thread Ken Teague
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

Re: Good times with md, ReiserFS, and /usr unmountable

2008-09-12 Thread Ken Teague
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

debian-installer: driver disk compatibility

2008-05-20 Thread Ken Teague
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