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Stroller wrote: |
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> For more funroll-loopiness I contemplate using ext4 for the new system |
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> I'm about to install. |
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> Anyone know of any LiveCDs that would support this? |
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> I _think_ it should be just a case of untarring the stage 3, chrooting |
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> in, updating everything to latest & reboot. As long as I use 2.6.28 |
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> when I install I don't think there should be anything that is |
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> incompatible with ext4?? |
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> Or would I be better off using ext3 and converting it to ext4 in a |
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> month or two? Are there any downsides to converting a fs from ext3 to |
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> ext4 in this way? |
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> Cheers, |
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> Stroller. |
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See if Knoppix supports it yet. If it does, you are good to go. |
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Anything that is bootable, has chroot and its friends available should |
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work. It doesn't have to be Gentoo specific. |
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You could do like I do. I copy everything over to another drive, then |
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do whatever to my main drive then copy it back. I have done that |
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several times and it works pretty well. |
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Dale |
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:-) :-) |
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