Thus spake Mikael Petersson: > Hello, > > Entire weekend I failed to install Woody with ext3 support. During > installation of the base system, I get the following error message: > > Failure trying to run: chroot /target > dpkg --force-auto-select --force-overwrite --force > > I get this error independently of which flavor of installation diskettes I > use. It goes fine if I first install Potato, then upgrade to Woody, but then > I'm stuck with the ext2 file system. > > Do I have to wait until Debian fixes the installation system or is there > something I can do? > > Regards, > > Mikael Petersson
Hello, far as I know, all you should have to do to change over to ext3 is apply the kernel patch, reconfigure and reboot, and then tune2fs -J the partition, change fstab to have an entry that reads ext3,ext2 rather than just ext2, and umount/mount the partition. Somebody please correct me if I'm wrong, because I'm thinking about changing over when Linus's kernels slow down a little. Good luck, Steve -- BOFH excuse #400: We are Microsoft. What you are experiencing is not a problem; it is an undocumented feature.
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