Yast1 can install to a ReiserFS root directory. IIRC, Yast2 does its own partitioning. If you want to partition the disk yourself, use Yast1. I have something similar: root~# more /etc/mtab /dev/hda4 / reiserfs rw 0 0 proc /proc proc rw 0 0 /dev/hda2 /boot ext2 rw 0 0 devpts /dev/pts devpts rw,gid=5,mode=0620 0 0 root~# df Filesystem 1k-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on /dev/hda4 6755116 4172056 2583060 62% / /dev/hda2 15052 3411 10838 24% /boot Quoting Christopher D. Reimer <creimer@rahul.net>:
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
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