Re: Crashed hard disk.

[Prabhu Ramachandran <prabhu@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

hi,

>>>>> "Ravikant" == Ravikant K Rao <ravikant@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

>>>>> "Prabhu" == Prabhu Ramachandran <prabhu@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
    Prabhu> The best option is to get/buy SuSE 6.4 and partition your
    Prabhu> files with reiserfs.  This is a journalling file

    Ravikant> 	Yup -- but isn't there a downside to it all? Like if
    Ravikant> you plonk in the slink/potato cds and try a fresh
    Ravikant> {install,upgrade}, your reiserfs partitions aren't even
    Ravikant> going to get detected, aye?

	Yes.  So stick to SuSe or wait for woody. :)

    Ravikant> 	Like could upgrade an existing Debian install for
    Ravikant> instance, *only* by apt-get via NFS or from
    Ravikant> ftp.debian.org ? Is apt-cdrom going to detect your
    Ravikant> existing reiserfs partitions?

	apt-cdrom has nothing to do with your filesystem or the
bootstrap process.  It merely adds the right entries to sources.list
and stores the package info in each cd so it can figure things out.
Much like apt-get update...

prabhu
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