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Date:      Sun, 1 Dec 2002 01:25:00 -0800
From:      David Schultz <dschultz@uclink.Berkeley.EDU>
To:        Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr>
Cc:        Marcin Dalecki <mdcki@gmx.net>, current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: sysinstall + swap partition requirement
Message-ID:  <20021201092500.GA2547@HAL9000.homeunix.com>
In-Reply-To: <20021127152134.GB609@gothmog.gr>
References:  <3DE4DEE8.8000808@gmx.net> <20021127152134.GB609@gothmog.gr>

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Thus spake Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr>:
> You don't *HAVE* to create a swap partition.  What you see is just a
> warning that sysinstall prints, if you have warnings enabled in the
> ``Options'' menu (they are enabled by default, if I'm not mistaken in
> my reading of the source).

I'm pretty sure it's mandatory.  I recently got bitten by this bug
while installing on a system with 512 MB of RAM because the drive
that was to contain the swap partition (really the crash dump
partition as far as I'm concerned) wasn't installed yet.  I ended
up not using sysinstall to do the install after all, due to other
problems that were made worse by a committer who broke some of the
boot code and refused to revert the changes for a number of days.

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