[jwhat]

Hi Callahan & Co,

this thread made me curious, as I have a desktop PC with Adaptec 2940 and original Fedora 1 (Yarrow) release installed on SCSI2SD disk. I use this to run the SGI L2 Emulator SW.

So I did a “man mount” and the page showed that xfs was an available mount option.

When I plugged an IRIX XFS disk into the machine and then tried to mount it, it failed, as the mount.xfs code was not installed (“mount -t xfs -o ro /dev/sdb1 /mnt/XFS” , where I got disk info from hardware browser util).
NOTE: I used read only option out of caution for my test.

Tried: "yum install xfsprogs" but this failed as there was no "xfsprogs" in the release 1 repository.

So I put a new SD card into the SCSI2SD unit and did a fresh install of Fedora Core 2 (Tettnang) from 2004, which is Linux 2.6 Kernel.

I had to update the Yum repository configuration: "/etc/yum.conf" to point to:
- "http://archives.fedoraproject.org/pub/archive/fedora/linux/core/$releasever/$basearch/os/"
- "http://archives.fedoraproject.org/pub/archive/fedora/linux/core/updates/$releasever/$basearch/"

Then did: "yum install xfsprogs"

This worked with Fedora 2, as xfs stuff is in repo.
So I am now able to mount physical XFS disk ok.

I deliberately used very old Fedora, as this is the release that Red Hat, who did initial XFS port used, rather than Debian based Linux.

Thanks for posting information.

Cheers from Oz,

jwhat/John