Folks, The new RH7.2 inclusion of journalling had me trying to backport just that part to kickstart / anaconda 7.0. Why 7.0 ? [ Warning: speculation below. a yes/no would be appreciated .. ] 7.0 was the last release that could install in 16 Meg of RAM. We are targetting recycled 486 / Pentium computers, and pushing a 486 over 16Meg means locating scarce, expensive, SIMM RAM after tossing out your 4M SIMMs. We want to do both CD and network installs. A change in RH7.1 anaconda copied the install image from the network and did a loopback mount, rather than doing an NFS mount directly, which I believe was the cause of the increased RAM usage. yes/no ? But I *really* wanted journalling - these machines live in remote township / rural schools, with flakey power. I replaced the e2fsprogs binaries in RedHat/instimage/*, including the shared libraries, and hacked the fstab.py script there to add the '-j' parameter to mke2fs, put something in %post to edit /etc/fstab to change partition types to ext3, and it works !! Cheers, Andy! -- http://www.wizzy.org.za/
