On Tue, 3 Jul 2001 Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom wrote: > > I'm planning to install RedHat on a laptop computer (one big root > > partition) and would like to use some kind of journaled file system > > instead of ext2. Does anyone know of a good way to install RedHat onto a > > ReiserFS root file system? Would it be better (more convenient) to drop > > back to RedHat 6.2 and use ext3? > > somewhere on SGIs site, is an ISO which will supposedly help you install XFS > on a new RH7.1 installation. > > try this: > http://oss.sgi.com/projects/xfs/1.0_installer.html > > once upon a time there was a hacked RH7.1 image which would install XFS; but > I think XFS has gone through some revisions since then. > > tell us what you find. :) Thank-you very much for the info. Your response prompted me to do some further digging. SGI has indeed released an installer ISO for RedHat 7.1 and XFS 1.0: <http://oss.sgi.com/projects/xfs/1.0_installer.html> In addition, some guy named Brad Tarver has boot diskettes to install RedHat 6.2 with ReiserFS (linked from www.reiserfs.com downloads page): <ftp://ftp.lugoj.org/pub/reiserfs/> There's also a set of combined ReiserFS and XFS debian disks available: <http://markybobdeb.sourceforge.net/zoltan/> So far, the only thing I could find to help with installing IBM's JFS was the "JFS Root Boot HOWTO", which recommends installing onto ext2 and then creating JFS partitions and copying everything: <http://oss.software.ibm.com/developer/opensource/jfs/project/pub/jfsroot.html> Ext3 might be another option: <http://www.uow.edu.au/~andrewm/linux/ext3/> Now I just need to figure out which one to use... Joel