When doing an install on a powerbook, I go into disk druid, try to have it reformat an existing partition as ext3, but only ext2 is on the list of file systems. No ext3. This is the FC4-re0404.0 tree
This means the module isn't loading for some reason. Can you grab /tmp/anaconda.log and /tmp/syslog? (if you've installed, they're /var/log/anaconda*)
Created attachment 112722 [details] anaconda.log
Created attachment 112723 [details] anaconda.syslog
kernel issue
ext3 in the 2.6.11-1.1225_FC4 kernel works fine for me on PPC: shinybook /home/dwmw2 $ uname -rm 2.6.11-1.1225_FC4 ppc shinybook /home/dwmw2 $ lsmod | grep ext3 ext3 171560 1 jbd 107224 1 ext3 This looks like something's going wrong with the installer image -- why isn't jbd.ko getting loaded before ext3.ko? But yes, the root of the problem _does_ lie with the kernel. Since ext3 is our default file system, we _really_ shouldn't make things gratuitously more fragile by building it as a module instead of statically in the kernel.
I'm told this should be fixed in FC4-re0406.1, however other installer issues prevent this from actually being installed (tracebacks in anaconda?).
This is fixed; verified with the FC4-re0409.1 tree