On Mon, Dec 09, 2002 at 10:41:41AM -0500, George Georgalis wrote: > On Sun, Dec 08, 2002 at 01:43:57PM +0100, Wojtek Aleksander wrote: > >Robert Sander wrote: > >>http://www.markybob.com/xfsboot/ is currently unreachable (name does not > >>resolve). Does anybody have any details about that? > >> > >>It's linked from the downloads section on the XFS page. > > > >Depending on what you want to do, you may want to try some other images > >or the Knoppix CD (this is full distibution which supports XFS and is > >based on Debian). For Debian install I succesfully used this image: > >http://people.debian.org/~blade/XFS-Install/download/ > > > I did some resesearch and found blade's images the best for a debian xfs > woody install. > > There are a couple problems with them though (didn't try the cdrom, only > the floppies): > > - you must make/use all 5 driver floppies even if you don't need extra > drivers, I'm kinda new to debian, maybe I missed something... > > - the kernel is optimized for install bootstraping, recompile one for > regular use, I think blade's uses udma 33, but there might have been > other slow down factors. > > - the rescue image does not have xfsrestore or any xfsprogs on it. > > > It would be good to note also that in the xfsprogs deb package > /usr/sbin/xfsrestore is a symlink to /sbin/xfsrestore ...so if you hose > your root partition with grub you can't use it. ;^) ext2 dump/restore are also in /sbin as they should be. the idea is keep your / small and contained, then you can restore /usr and other large filesystems. screwing over / usually means your hosed anyway. -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/
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