Re: XFS ISO images for RedHat 7.3

[Eric Sandeen <sandeen@xxxxxxx>]

On Wed, 2002-05-22 at 11:44, Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk wrote:

> it should be perfectly possible to upgrade to rh73 with xfs filesystems, as 
> the rh73 installer loads the drivers. it just doesn't include any way to 
> install a fresh system on xfs

Not quite - there is no xfs filesystem support in the kernel that boots
the installer, so you can't mount the xfs filesystems to do the upgrade.

I was thinking that an upgrade-only "installer" might be simpler to do,
though, if an xfs-capable kernel could be booted in the installer
somehow.

-Eric

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