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Re: Redhat 6.2

To: Richard Houston <rhouston@xxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: Redhat 6.2
From: Russell Cattelan <cattelan@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 21 Jun 2001 11:58:04 -0500
Cc: linux-xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx
References: <200106211518.f5LFIxe10112@oss.sgi.com>
Sender: owner-linux-xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx
Richard Houston wrote:

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> Good Day
>
> First off, bravo!! Great job. So far so good in my experience.
>
> Do you have or does anyone else have plans to do an installer for Redhat 
> 6.2\? I know 6.2 is a 2.2.14 kernel but a 6.2 install with 2.4.X
> kernel and all around XFS would be nice. The reason I ask is that the company 
> I consult for uses Redhat 6.2 for it's DB2 servers.
> IBM does not seem to support DB2 on servers higher than RH 6.2 at this time.

This would be  a lot of work since the kernel rpm's have all sorts of 
dependencies  on
7.1 stuff.
I would say your best bet to get a system running 6.2 + xfs on an ext2 
partition and then
use the installer iso in rescue mode to manually create the xfs filesystems and 
copy the
system over.
http:/oss.sgi.com/projects/xfs/xfsroot.html

>
>
> Any info would be great.
>
> Thanks
>
> Rich

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