Brent,

On Fri, 15 Jul 2005, Brent L. Bates wrote:

>      I downloaded the latest ISO images from linux03.fnal.gov:
> 
> 	SL.40.042505.i386.disc[1-4].iso
> 
>      When I go to do the install, it doesn't allow me to use XFS as a file
> system.  It has ext2, ext3, etc., but not XFS.  Someone told me I needed to
> type something like the following:
> 
> linux xfs
> 
> or
> 
> linux enablexfs
> 
> or
> 
> linux withxfs
> 
>      to enable XFS support.  However, none of these or any variations I've
> tried seem to work.  Does anyone here know what I'm suppose to do to get this
> working?  For the past several days I've done all sorts of searching of the
> Scientific Linux Web site and Google searches and I haven't turned anything up
> yet.  Any help would be greatly appreciated.  Thanks.

RedHat (Upstream vendor) took that option out of RHEL4 which SL40 is based 
on.  RedHat has this option in Fedora Core 3 which RHEL4 is based on.
So many assume that since it was in Fedora Core 3 it is in RHEL4 , which 
saddly is not true.

We provide some xfs enabled kernels in /contrib/  but these have to be 
installed after the initial install.

ftp://ftp.scientificlinux.org/linux/scientific/40/i386/contrib/RPMS/xfs/

or

on cd 4 in /contrib/RPMS/xfs/

Note that a google search of "scientific linux 40 xfs" shows the above ftp 
area on item 4 .

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