[mythtv-users] Stupid Newbie Question about Linux

[David Wallace]

It is in Fedora 4. Did you burn from the 4 ISO images? Don't just do
ext3 unless you have some very high performance SCSI drives. :)

David


On Tue, 2005-11-08 at 16:54 -0500, Serge.Zwikker wrote:
> I think they don't have it in there new version anymore.  I also did the
> lower case "l" It acts like it reads the file just doesn't give me the
> option to choose.  And I have installed that first part probably now
> about 20 times :(
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: mythtv-users-bounces at mythtv.org
> [mailto:mythtv-users-bounces at mythtv.org] On Behalf Of David Wallace
> Sent: Tuesday, November 08, 2005 4:51 PM
> To: Discussion about mythtv
> Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] Stupid Newbie Question about Linux
> 
> 
> 
> I didn't use a capital "L" when I did it a couple of weeks ago. Did
> 
> linux jfs
> 
> and did manually partition disk, which gave me the option of jfs.
> Aditionally I created a logical volume (LVM, have 2 disks in the system,
> with the OS, swap, etc on disk one with the remainder of disk one and
> all of disk two in the logical volume) which I mount over /usr/local
> then I just created a directory, /usr/local/video for MythTv. Below are
> the results of 1) mount command and 2) df command from my box. Hope this
> helps some, David
> 
> 
> 1)
> 
> [root at myth ~]# mount
> /dev/hda2 on / type ext3 (rw)
> /dev/proc on /proc type proc (rw)
> /dev/sys on /sys type sysfs (rw)
> /dev/devpts on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,gid=5,mode=620) /dev/hda1 on
> /boot type ext3 (rw) /dev/shm on /dev/shm type tmpfs (rw)
> /dev/mapper/VolGroup00-LogVol00 on /usr/local type jfs (rw) none on
> /proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc type binfmt_misc (rw)
> automount(pid1990) on /misc type autofs
> (rw,fd=4,pgrp=1990,minproto=2,maxproto=4)
> automount(pid2025) on /net type autofs
> (rw,fd=4,pgrp=2025,minproto=2,maxproto=4)
> 
> 2)
> 
> [root at myth ~]# df
> Filesystem           1K-blocks      Used Available Use% Mounted on
> /dev/hda2             24797412   4085720  19431716  18% /
> /dev/hda1               988088     25180    911904   3% /boot
> /dev/shm                257372         0    257372   0% /dev/shm
> /dev/mapper/VolGroup00-LogVol00
>                      283729248  22530688 261198560   8% /usr/local
> 
> 
>  
> 
> 
> On Tue, 2005-11-08 at 16:25 -0500, Serge.Zwikker wrote:
> > Ok I am following the http://wilsonet.com/mytht which I must say is 
> > great.  I just can't get past the easy install of Linux.
> > 
> > When I am installing Linux I type in the boot prompt "Linux jfs"
> > 
> > But when I do the Disk Setup and try to do JFS for my /video partition
> 
> > I get only these options to choose from
> > 
> > Ext2
> > Ext3
> > Physical volume (LVM)
> > Software RAID
> > Swap
> > Vfat
> > 
> > What am I doing wrong here.  I have Google it for hours just can't 
> > figure out what I am doing wrong.
> > 
> > Thanks for all your help
> > 
> > Serge
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