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From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
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To: David Schultz <dschultz@uclink.Berkeley.EDU>
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Subject: Re: sysinstall + swap partition requirement
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On Sun, 1 Dec 2002, David Schultz wrote:

> 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

It's not mandatory.  I never use one on machines with sufficient RAM.
How much RAM is sufficent depends on the process mix.  512MB is
sufficient on my main machine since it never runs bloatware or lots
of processes concurrently.  I also don't use swapping (of upages --
the NO_SWAPPING option, which should be the default) or sysinstall.

Bruce


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