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Re: [ANNOUNCE] XFS enabled version of the RedHat 9.0 installer

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Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE] XFS enabled version of the RedHat 9.0 installer
From: Keith Owens <kaos@xxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 05 May 2003 13:11:44 +1000
In-reply-to: Your message of "Sun, 04 May 2003 22:51:40 -0400." <Pine.LNX.4.53.0305042247330.11470@blake.timetraveller.org>
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On Sun, 4 May 2003 22:51:40 -0400 (EDT), 
Robert Brockway <robert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>On Mon, 5 May 2003, Keith Owens wrote:
>
>> Unfortunately there was no shell on ALT-F2 at this point so I could not
>> confirm if the XFS module was loaded or not.  In the end went through
>> the CD shuffle instead of using the CD copies on the hard disk.
>
>I know you're using Redhat, but if you wanted to take the Debian plunge,
>the following iso image produces xfs enabled boxes quickly & cleanly:
>
>http://people.debian.org/~blade/XFS-Install/download/new/bootbf2.4-xfs.iso

I think you are missing my point.  I do XFS installs from Redhat all
the time, and it works when using physical CDs.  In this case I was
trying out the "upgrade from existing hard disk" method and that
particular option does not work with XFS, probably because the
installer does not load the XFS module on that rarely used code path.


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