On Wed, Nov 14, 2001 at 09:37:10PM +0100, Seth Mos wrote:
> At 19:13 14-11-2001 +0100, Kristian Sorensen wrote:
>
> >I would like to install a Debian server with XFS, I've tried to look for
> >info on how to do this but I'm a bit lost. Do I have to compile a new
> >kernel for it or has anybody made a setup disk to go with the cdroms? I
> >hope someone can find the time to shed some light on this.
>
> There is a link to Debian XFS boot disks in the FAQ although they are ment
> to be used for woody.
>
are you using the mainline debian woody boot-floppies just built with
a 2.4-xfs kernel? or is it still a quick and dirty hack?
the mainline boot-floppies support installing on XFS, all you must do
is add mkfs.xfs to the root.bin image (scripts/rootdisk/EXTRACT_LIST_*
and scripts/rootdisk/SMALL_BASE_LIST_*) and build them with a 2.4
kernel with XFS support.
when both of these are met it automatically starts offering XFS as a choice.
unfortunatly creating flavors with a different major kernel version
(2.4 instead of 2.2) is non-trivial so there will probably not be a
XFS flavor in the final boot-floppies, but as ive said you can simply
build mainline boot-floppies with the only changes being to have it
include mkfs.xfs (from xfsprogs-bf) and to use a 2.4 XFS enabled
kernel. no code changes are needed whatsoever.
i can't build boot-floppies for i386 so i would hope someone here
could take that on, now that the code supports this its really not
hard at all.
the powerpc port may well have a XFS flavor since we have to enable
2.4 support there anyway.
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Ethan Benson
http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/
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