[Gllug] gentoo

[Dylan]

On Tuesday 10 June 2003 23:16, Adam Bower wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 10, 2003 at 10:36:33PM +0100, Dylan wrote:
> > On Tuesday 10 June 2003 22:31, Tethys wrote:
> > > Dylan writes:
> > > >> a. Create a partition /dev/hdx (say 5gig) for Gentoo and put a
> > > >>    filesystem on it, say ext3. (I've plenty of space on a hard
> > > >> disk).
> > > >
> > > >I'd go for ext2 to start with - you can change it over later and ext2
> > > > is in the kernel by default.
> > >
> > > As is ext3...
> >
> > that'll be why it's the only thing in the initrd for SuSE 8.2 then
>
> you can mount ext3 as ext2, its backwards compatible...

Yes, I know - my point was that ext2 is basic as basic gets (in the relevant 
context) so is one less complication for the gentoo experience...

>
> Adam
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