Making reiserfs work in the installer

[Samuel Flory]

  The following are the steps to make the beta work with reiserfs.  This 
will work with a cdrom iso image or a full nfs image.

1)Create a stage 2 image with reiserfs:
 cd /severn/RedHat/base/
 cp stage2.img stage2.img.old
mkdir m1
mount -oloop stage2.img m1
 1022  cp -a m1/ tree
 mkdir mymods
rpm2cpio ../RPMS/kernel-2.4.21-20.1.2024.2.1.nptl.i586.rpm |cpio -ivd
rpm2cpio ../RPMS/kernel-unsupported-2.4.21-20.1.2024.2.1.nptl.i586.rpm 
|cpio -ivd
 cd mymods/
 cp 
../lib/modules/2.4.21-20.1.2024.2.1.nptl/unsupported/fs/reiserfs/reiserfs.o 
2.4.21-20.1.2024.2.1.nptl/i586/
 cp ../lib/modules/2.4.21-20.1.2024.2.1.nptl/unsupported/fs/jfs/jfs.o 
2.4.21-20.1.2024.2.1.nptl/i586/
 find . -type f | cpio -H crc -o | gzip -9 > ../modules.cgz
 cd ..
 mv modules.cgz tree/modules/
 umount m2
  rm -rf boot lib mymods
  mkcramfs tree/ stage2.img
  rm stage2.img.old (only if this is going to be a cdrom image otherwise 
keep the backup image.)

1a)Create a new iso image.  (Haven't done this as I do network installs, 
but in theroy.)
 mkisofs -T -r -o ../newrhbeta.iso -b isolinux/isolinux.bin -c 
isolinux/boot.cat -no-emul-boot -boot-load-size 4 -boot-info-table .
 
2)Boot the installer with the additional reiserfs option.  Examples 
"linux reiserfs" or "text reiserfs".
 

PS- If you want I can email my modules.cgz off list.

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Sam Flory  <sflory at rackable.com>