On Tue, Nov 02, 2004 at 02:02:59PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hello all, > > I'm a Linux newbie. Been trying RedHat, Fedora, Mandrake distros and finally > thought of something more serious so here I am. So far I was used to go for an > Ext3 filesystem for my 'root' and 'home' partitions. Very convenient, as I > don't know a lot about the other exotic filesystems available with Linux. > But here, installing a very freshly downloaded set of Debian cd's, the installer > did not offer me the 'EXT3' choice. The best I could get was 'EXT2'. How comes ? > > By the way I find it kind of awkward that the default kernel offered by Debian > is a 2.2 (a pain in the arse if you think about setting up a sound device, as > Alsa is not included). > > Could anyone enlighten me with some explanation ?
If you enter bf24 at the boot: prompt it'll boot the installer using kernel 2.4.18 with ext3 support as a module. -- Pigeon Be kind to pigeons Get my GPG key here: http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0x21C61F7F
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