Date: Sun, 01 Dec 2002 03:12:59 -0800 From: Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com> To: David Schultz <dschultz@uclink.Berkeley.EDU> Cc: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>, Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr>, Marcin Dalecki <mdcki@gmx.net>, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: sysinstall + swap partition requirement Message-ID: <3DE9EEBB.C7AE0B26@mindspring.com> References: <20021201092500.GA2547@HAL9000.homeunix.com> <20021201210742.J11226-100000@gamplex.bde.org> <20021201101739.GA2928@HAL9000.homeunix.com>
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David Schultz wrote: > Thus spake Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>: > > On Sun, 1 Dec 2002, David Schultz wrote: > > > Thus spake Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr>: [ ... ] > I meant to say that sysinstall forces you to have a swap > partition, not that the kernel forces you to have one. (That > would be an interesting catch-22 indeed.) It's a bug in > sysinstall that you can't make it work without allocating swap > space, even if you don't need it, or you don't want to add it > immediately. Sorry for the confusion. On Wed, 27 Nov 2002 Giorgos Keramidas wrote: | Bearing that in mind, the change that made a swap partition | ``mandatory'' was revision 1.117 of src/usr.sbin/sysinstall/install.c Preaching to the choir, I think... this was already in this same thread, last Wednesday. Looks like nothing but rehashing, now. -- Terry To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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