From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Oleg Drokin <green@namesys.com>
Subject: Re: How not to liquidate a company... (Upgrading from 2.2.x kernel (patched) to 2.4.x. [and testimonial])
Date: Thu, 20 Jun 2002 09:09:06 +0400
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To: Scott Bragg <jsbragg@pacific.net.au>
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Hello!

On Wed, Jun 19, 2002 at 11:58:14PM -0700, Scott Bragg wrote:

> I'd like to install a newer distribution on the system, but am not sure if
> there is an issue when switching from a system using a 2.2.16 kernel patched
> with ReiserFS to a 2.4.18 kernel.

Read Documentation/Changes from your 2.4.18 linux kernel source tree
to find out what utils should be upgraded to what versions, if you
are upgrading from 2.2.16 kernel.

> So, I have to install Linux on a new system disk, and would like to use
> Mandrake 8.1 (as I run this version on 12 systems I currently manage). So..
> can I just install Mandrake 8.1 and set up the 750Gb volume in fstab with
> reiserfs, or will it not be that simple?

If you are installing new system, then you have nothing to worry about.
Just make sure you run 2.4.18+ kernel (needed for reisergfs stability)
and also have reiserfsprogs-3.x.1b version of reiserfsprogs (Mandrake
seems to ship somewhat outdated version of these, so you'd need to upgrade this
component)

Bye,
    Oleg