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Re: ISO installer for RH9 with XFS 1.3.1

To: Pascal de Bruijn <keizerflipje@xxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: ISO installer for RH9 with XFS 1.3.1
From: Mike Burger <mburger@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sat, 24 Jul 2004 06:14:16 -0500 (EST)
Cc: Jason Cole <colejp@xxxxxxxxxxx>, linux-xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx
In-reply-to: <41023555.2050503@xxxxxxx>
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On Sat, 24 Jul 2004, Pascal de Bruijn wrote:

> I don't know... But are you sure you want to use this?
> 
> The kernel included is probably heavily outdated, and doesn't have the 
> latest security patches.
> 
> And making your own kernel on such a machine would be hard because 
> RedHat's kernel has NPTL patched in.
> 
> Note that if I'm not mistaken Fedora Core 2 has XFS support, you just 
> need to boot with another kernel (i think)...

From may reports here, and even the Fedora Unofficial FAQ, you can just 
boot the FC2 CD with "linux xfs" and be on your way.
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