December 2002
Intermediate to advanced
260 pages
9h 18m
English
Recent versions of Red Hat, SuSE, Mandrake, and TurboLinux all support direct installation to JFS volumes. On Red Hat, the same trick that I mentioned earlier for ReiserFS applies. Although undocumented, typing linux jfs at the boot prompt causes JFS to appear as an option in Disk Druid. This allows you to install Linux directly to a software RAID, using JFS.
I am not aware of any boot media that allow Debian users to install a new system with JFS.
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