Fedora Core formalism

[Ric Moore]

On Sat, 2007-03-10 at 19:56 -0800, Tony Alfrey wrote:
> Net Llama! wrote:
> > On Sat, 10 Mar 2007, Tony Alfrey wrote:
> >> Now my next question is how do I mount this VolGroup thing so that I can
> >> access it from the outside world (from another partition)?  The
> >> traditional method for mounting an ext3 filesystem does not work,
> >> because there is more than just an ext3 filesystem in this VolGroup thing.
> > 
> > You can't unless you've got a kernel which has LVM support.
> > 
> 
> Hmmm,  that's a pain.  I can recompile my SuSE kernel, or set up the 
> disks to boot in the opposite order, but then I have to make GRUB be the 
> chain loader.
> 
> Is there a way to install FC without this structure, in other words, 
> with a / directory and a swap partition?

Tony, many things have changed since the carefree days of Caldera, I'm
sad to relate. For now the LVM big deal is the journaling you now have
and doing the old fsck business every 20 boots or so is for all
practical purposes gone. While I don't begin to pretend to be expert on
it, it seems to work, unless you stir it with a stick. Like an ant pile,
it's best left alone and everybody's yard now has one. There is no where
to move to, to avoid ants or ext3, anymore. 

I remember when there was just /etc/passwd, then they added /etc/shadow
and all the rest that changed. Best just go with it. It's like a bowl of
oat-bran ...you wake up in the morning and it's there. 

<sobs at the inevitable loss of the 486 install>  Ric
 
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