RAW devices

[Les Mikesell]

On Sat, 2005-08-20 at 13:43, John Rowan wrote:
> The application I seek to run on FC4 requires raw partition support.  
> RH9 had such raw devices defined but there is nothing like it from what 
> I can see in FC4.  The vendor, Raining Data, will not support Fedora 
> Core, recommeding clients purchase RHES instead.  On their user forum 
> one person suggested to use White Box Linux or CentOS (his preference).  
> I tried White Box some time ago but didn't have the time to invest in 
> yet another distribution.  I have the same feeling about CentOS but if 
> Raw partitions are not part of FC4 I guess I'll be downloading a new 
> distro soon.

Aren't raw partitions what the filesystems are created on?  I'm not
sure how that can be missing, but Centos4 is a good choice regardless
if you don't want to keep up with the fast release cycle and changes
in fedora.

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  Les Mikesell
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