Linked by Alexander Antoniades on Thu 5th Dec 2002 21:58 UTC
It's easy to grow increasingly cynical the more you follow "innovation" in operating systems and software. New releases often turn out to be nothing more than reinventing, or repackaging, the wheel, with new icons and steeper system requirements. Yet every now and then persistence pays off and that lengthy download or poorly written web site delivers something truly amazing and faith in the future of computing is, albeit temporarily, restored. I experienced such a sensation a couple of months ago when I downloaded the CD-ROM based, Linux distribution known as Knoppix. 
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To install Knoppix to ext3 (or reiserfs). I copied the script to / and edited it for everything that says ext2 to ext3. Add "-j" to the mke2fs command and when the install finishes verify that the root partition is ext3 in /etc/fstab. I didn't look up every instance of "ext2" in the script when I tried using reiserfs (didn't work because of it) but I'm sure it would work. Also, double check that lilo is set up correctly. I installed to my second hard drive and had to edit the /etc/lilo.conf and rerun lilo to get it to write to my first hard drive's MBR.
Note: mkreiserfs asks for a Y/n reply when it's about to format. During the install it will print some messages and pause. To continue you could just hit enter. I typed "y" and then hit enter to be sure.
Disclaimer: Do this at your own risk. Exactly as the script says it's still under development and I cannot take responsibility for typos, acts of God, etc...
On the plus side, I'm writing this from the Knoppix CD I installed to an ext3 partition on my second hard drive. :-D