Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (2372 mails)

["Christopher D. Reimer" <creimer@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Sat, 6 Jan 2001, MaD dUCK wrote:
 
> /dev/hda1       /boot       8Mb     ext2fs
> /dev/hda2       <swap>      256Mb
> /dev/hda3       extended
> /dev/hda4                   266Mb   suspend2disk (dell specific)
> /dev/hda5       /           500Mb   reiserfs
> /dev/hda6       /usr        1500Mb  reiserfs
> /dev/hda7       /usr/local  350Mb   reiserfs
> /dev/hda8       /home       3000Mb  reiserfs
> /dev/hda9       /var        100Mb   reiserfs
> /dev/hda10      /tmp        200Mb   reiserfs

I'm not sure if YAST can install to a reiserfs root directory ("/").  You
might want to format /dev/hda5 to use ext2fs, leave the other partitions
unmounted for now and install a basic linux installation that will allow
you to recompile the kernel.  You may need to get the latest version of
reiserfs to get it to work properly.  Once you figure out how to set up
the partitions for reiserfs (I have no experience with it since I'm
waiting for a production-level version to be released), you can mount the
other partitions with temporary names, move the appropriate directory
contents over, and remount the partitions under their correct names.  Once
that's working, you can finish the rest of the installation.

Christopher Reimer