From owner-freebsd-current Sun Dec 1 3:14:47 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 CCCF037B401 for ; Sun, 1 Dec 2002 03:14:45 -0800 (PST) Received: from flamingo.mail.pas.earthlink.net (flamingo.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.120.232]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6430D43ED4 for ; Sun, 1 Dec 2002 03:14:45 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from tlambert2@mindspring.com) Received: from pool0061.cvx22-bradley.dialup.earthlink.net ([209.179.198.61] helo=mindspring.com) by flamingo.mail.pas.earthlink.net with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1) id 18IS3T-0007WI-00; Sun, 01 Dec 2002 03:14:32 -0800 Message-ID: <3DE9EEBB.C7AE0B26@mindspring.com> Date: Sun, 01 Dec 2002 03:12:59 -0800 From: Terry Lambert X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.79 [en] (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: David Schultz Cc: Bruce Evans , Giorgos Keramidas , Marcin Dalecki , current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: sysinstall + swap partition requirement References: <20021201092500.GA2547@HAL9000.homeunix.com> <20021201210742.J11226-100000@gamplex.bde.org> <20021201101739.GA2928@HAL9000.homeunix.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii 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 David Schultz wrote: > Thus spake Bruce Evans : > > On Sun, 1 Dec 2002, David Schultz wrote: > > > Thus spake Giorgos Keramidas : [ ... ] > 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