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Re: XFS ISO images for RedHat 7.3

To: Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk <roy@karlsbakk.net>
Subject: Re: XFS ISO images for RedHat 7.3
From: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@sgi.com>
Date: 22 May 2002 11:58:36 -0500
Cc: Nathan Straz <nstraz@sgi.com>, linux-xfs@oss.sgi.com
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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

-- 
Eric Sandeen      XFS for Linux     http://oss.sgi.com/projects/xfs
sandeen@sgi.com   SGI, Inc.

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