Re: [Jfs-discussion] re installing red hat 7.1

[Christoph H. <hc...@ns...>]

On Thu, Oct 18, 2001 at 09:22:34PM -0600, Derrik Pates wrote:
> On Fri, 19 Oct 2001, Adrian Suri wrote:
> 
> > Here I want to install Red on on it's own partition, though it would be nice if either OS
> > could see each other.  More importantly I want to install Redhat without destroying what I
> > already have on my hard disk, ie without fdisk
> 
> I _highly_ doubt you can. Linux uses its own LVM subsystem and partition
> type, which (I'm sure it's a safe bet) is not compatible with OS/2's. If
> you want Linux installed with JFS, you're gonna have to back up the files
> you want, clean up the system, and install Linux fresh, worrying about LVM
> once you get the Linux install started.

There is an EVMS project that supports OS/2 volumes as well, but I haven't
seen any installer supporting it yet..

	Christoph

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Of course it doesn't work. We've performed a software upgrade.