Re: [ext2resize] Installing a System from scratch

[Andreas D. <ad...@cl...>]

On Feb 19, 2003  16:53 +0000, Louis Becker wrote:
>          I am a newbie in this mailinglist i subscribed to it for the 
> following reason :
>                  How can i install ext2resize after a fresh system 
> installation ?
> 
>          I installed a new box with RedHat 8.0, ( 2.4.18-14 )
>          Software Raid for 4 disks
>          LVM ontop of the raid
>          and i want to be abble to resize the fs on in a Volumegroup ( like 
> AIX )
>          i tried to find out how to patch the Kernel :
>                  cd /usr/src
>                  ln -sf linux-2.4.18-14 linux
>                  cat 
> /packages/DCE_V80/all/ext3patch/online-ext2-2[1].4.18.diff | patch -p0
>                  ln -sf linux-2.4.18-14 linux-2.4.18
>                  cat 
> /packages/DCE_V80/all/ext3patch/online-ext3-2[1].4.18.diff | patch -p0
>                  cd linux-2.4.18
>                  make mrproper
>                  make menuconfig
>                  [ selection in the Tree of Filesystems, then select ext2 
> resize and ext3 resize then save the new config ]
>                  make dep
>                  make
>                  make bzImage
>                  make modules
>                  make modules_install
>                  make install
>                  [ edit /etc/grub.conf and change the default kernel boot 
> option to 0 so the new inserted kernel will be the default ]
>                  reboot
>          but i suppose that there will be a shorter way to just patch the 
> kernel for ext(2)(3)online ?
> 
>          Thanks for any help and/or confirmation

This seems fine to me, although for RH systems I'd suggest using "make rpm"
to build the kernel and not "make dep bzImage install modules modules_install".
Then, install the RPM from /usr/src/redhat/RPMS/i386

Cheers, Andreas
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Andreas Dilger
http://sourceforge.net/projects/ext2resize/
http://www-mddsp.enel.ucalgary.ca/People/adilger/