Michael Lake wrote:
>
> Terry Collins wrote:
> >
> > The boss's (SWMBO) pentium has finally spat the dummy and needs a
> > complete rebuild, so it is an opportunity to put in a bigger hard disk
> > and convert it to dual boot. The dual boot will be Suse6.4 & DOS(WFWG).
> >
> > Does anyone know of any gotcha's with this?
>
> SUSE 6.4 installs the Reiser filesystem and this is
> incompatible with NFS on other non-Reiser filesystems. You
> get a choice at install time; if u want fast reboots after
> probs go Reiser if you need to run NFS go ext2.
Furthermore avoid Reiser if you plan to use Win4Lin later on. The
precompiled SuSE Win4Lin kernel does not work with SuSE's implementation
of the Reiser fs in their 6.4 distribution.
Ken
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