On Wednesday 23 August 2006 06:28, stephan beal wrote:
On Tuesday 22 August 2006 10:13, John Andersen wrote:
I had no problem with the CPU issue, but I did discover a minor kubuntu failing: arbitrarily using ext3, without so much as a by your leave.
This isn't arbitrary, it turns out: i switched my / to xfs and then, at the end of the install process, kubuntu warned me that grub won't always install on XFS and they offer Lilo as an alternative. i tried it anyway and it didn't work, so i had to install all over again to format / as ext3 so grub would work.
OTOH, after the first Kubuntu install, for the subsequent ones I caught the ext3 thingie just in the nic of time selected reiserfs because it has been so robust on all my SuSE installations. Kubuntu was happy use reiser, and it worked like a charm. I'm sure this is the wrong list for this, Ubuntu was also happy to mount a ntfs partition on the second drive. Mounted it RW, which scared the hell out of me so I remounted it RW. Does anyone know if its generally regarded as safe to mount ntfs RW these days? -- _____________________________________ John Andersen