SUSE vs. Debian (lindows)

[Ken Moffat]

Joel Hammer wrote:

>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.
>
>  
>
man initrd will explain it's role in the boot process. The boot loader 
(grub or lilo) loads initrd, which is a ramdisk, and therefore the boot 
loader must already be able to read the filesystem. Actually, I don't 
understand the need for initrd, so will defer to more knowledgable users.

>
>So far I have mixed and matched things from the warehouse
>and with apt-get and synaptic. I haven't had anything
>break yet.
>
>  
>
Good to know. Still runs as root. Is there a adduser option? Can you not 
run as root?

-- 
Ken