SUSE vs. Debian (lindows)

[Joel Hammer]

On Sun, Jan 18, 2004 at 07:16:45PM -0800, Ken Moffat wrote:
> Joel Hammer wrote:
> 
> >It sounds like grub has to have an
> >initrd to have the reiserfs module available to it.
> 
> I use libranet, based on and compatible with debian, and use Reiserfs 
> and grub, and have no initrd. You can easily add reiserfs support to 
> your kernel during configuration.
> 
> There are kernels from debian that you can install that do need initrd 
> because of the way they are packaged.
> 
> I also have Debian 3.0 on an ext3 partition using lilo without initrd. 
> Your understanding of debian is somewhat confusing to me.

Well, I am just getting into debian, so it is confusing
to me.  But, the documentation on linux things is
confusing. Reading about grub in the SUSE manual (page 75
of the administrator's guide 9.0 pro), it clearly states
that grub contains code to support reiserfs as well as XFS,
and others. Yet, the SUSE mkinitrd script adds reiserfs
to the initrd.  Why would it do this if grub natively
supports reiserfs? So, there is a lot going on that is
not well explained.

> I'm not a fan of lindows; seems running as root is dangerous, and I 
> believe (though am unsure) that their repository is not totally 
> compatible with debian. Correct me if I'm mistaken.


So far I have mixed and matched things from the warehouse
and with apt-get and synaptic. I haven't had anything
break yet.


Joel