From owner-freebsd-current Wed Nov 27 7:33:19 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E09A637B401 for ; Wed, 27 Nov 2002 07:33:17 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail.gmx.net (mail.gmx.net [213.165.65.60]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id BD09B43EB2 for ; Wed, 27 Nov 2002 07:33:16 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mdcki@gmx.net) Received: (qmail 17950 invoked by uid 0); 27 Nov 2002 15:33:15 -0000 Received: from cvpn018.gwdg.de (HELO gmx.net) (134.76.22.18) by mail.gmx.net (mp010-rz3) with SMTP; 27 Nov 2002 15:33:15 -0000 Message-ID: <3DE4F3ED.8070709@gmx.net> Date: Wed, 27 Nov 2002 17:33:49 +0100 From: Marcin Dalecki User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.0.1) Gecko/20020830 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Giorgos Keramidas Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: sysinstall + swap partition requirement References: <3DE4DEE8.8000808@gmx.net> <20021127152134.GB609@gothmog.gr> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Giorgos Keramidas wrote: > On 2002-11-27 16:04, Marcin Dalecki wrote: > >>During a fresh install of the DP2 I noticed that sysinstall didn't >>allow me to configure the system *without* any swap paritions. >> >>Well this doesn't make sense, since: >> >>1. The system has perfectly fine 192MB of RAM, thus the installation >>should scceed anyway... > > > You might still need some swap though. Since this is a release of the > DP series (developer preview) it makes a lot of sense to have swap > space available. Otherwise, it will probably be difficult to get > crash dumps. This being a ``developer preview'' release, you might > need the ability to get crash dumps if you happen to stumble upon an > unknown bug. Yes but I would rather preferr to do SWAP to file. > Bearing that in mind, the change that made a swap partition > ``mandatory'' was revision 1.117 of src/usr.sbin/sysinstall/install.c > > 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). Yes I have tried this. But apparently sysinstall *still* enforced the presence of a SWAP parition. Anyway I will try to nuke the swap parition by using growfs. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message