F10 beta from LiveCD

[Jeremy Katz]

On Tue, 2008-09-30 at 21:04 +0100, Peter Robinson wrote:
> >> A couple of queries about the F10 Beta live CD and installing to HDD from it.
> >>
> >> Firstly is it possible to enable ext4 from the LiveCD install?
> >
> > No -- the live install just copies the filesystem that's used from the
> > live image to the target disk.  And since the source filesystem is
> > ext3 ...
> >
> > While you could then enable extents, you're not going to get most of the
> > advantages until all the files are rewritten
> 
> OK, I figured as much, I was actually wanting it for a /home dir. Is
> that possible?

You probably have to 
a) boot with 'ext4' on the kernel command line
b) manually load the ext4 module
c) do manual partitioning.

But with those things done, no reason it wouldn't work for /home

Jeremy