Date: 21 Jan 2003 20:02:19 -0000 From: Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org> To: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org Subject: misc/47314: Install requires a swap partition. Message-ID: <20030121200219.13715.qmail@mired.org>
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>Number: 47314 >Category: misc >Synopsis: Install requires a swap partition. >Confidential: no >Severity: non-critical >Priority: medium >Responsible: freebsd-bugs >State: open >Quarter: >Keywords: >Date-Required: >Class: change-request >Submitter-Id: current-users >Arrival-Date: Tue Jan 21 12:10:05 PST 2003 >Closed-Date: >Last-Modified: >Originator: Mike Meyer >Release: FreeBSD 4.7-STABLE i386 >Organization: Meyer Consulting >Environment: System: FreeBSD guru.mired.org 4.7-STABLE FreeBSD 4.7-STABLE #17: Wed Oct 30 09:13:02 CST 2002 mwm@guru.mired.org:/sharetmp/obj/usr/src/sys/GURU i386 FreeBSD 5.x and 5.0 - RELEASE >Description: Even though there appears to be more than enough RAM on modern machines for the install to complete without a swap partition, it still refuses to install unless you allocate a swap partition. This is particularly annoying if your swap partition is going to be on an extended slice. >How-To-Repeat: Try to isntall without creating a swap partition. >Fix: >Release-Note: >Audit-Trail: >Unformatted: To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-bugs" in the body of the message
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