Re: Best way to use a microdrive with familiar

> One answer is to copy over what's currently in /usr (tar cf - /usr | (cd
> /mnt/microdrive; tar xpf -)), and afterward mount your microdrive at /usr
> instead; once you're sure this works, you can unmount the microdrive long

I can do this. Thanks.

However, I have a bootstrapping problem which is what filesystem type to
make on the microdrive. I can use VFAT, but I don't think quite a few
UNIX-like file operations work on that... like symlinks for example.

I could use ext2, but I'm not sure the familiar kernel has ext2 built-in.
At least, I don't see it in the list from in /proc/filesystems.

What would be the best, out-of-the-box filesystem type to format the
microdrive under Familiar?

At the moment, I'm thinking of using the toolchain and compiling up a 2.4.6
kernel with ext2 support... or at least, the module for it (if that is
feasable).

Thanks.

-- ange --
Received on Tue Aug 14 2001 - 05:01:27 EDT