From owner-freebsd-current Wed Nov 27 6: 3:57 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 90DCF37B401 for ; Wed, 27 Nov 2002 06:03:56 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail.gmx.net (mail.gmx.net [213.165.65.60]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 4F4B843E4A for ; Wed, 27 Nov 2002 06:03:55 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mdcki@gmx.net) Received: (qmail 3743 invoked by uid 0); 27 Nov 2002 14:03:52 -0000 Received: from cvpn020.gwdg.de (HELO gmx.net) (134.76.22.20) by mail.gmx.net (mp002-rz3) with SMTP; 27 Nov 2002 14:03:52 -0000 Message-ID: <3DE4DEE8.8000808@gmx.net> Date: Wed, 27 Nov 2002 16:04:08 +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: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: sysinstall + swap partition requirement 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 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... 2. I intendid to use SWAP-over-vnode to work around GCC's "template compilation eats RAM" struggle. I guess this "safety check" is a leftover from the days where one had typically 16MB of RAM + 100MB of swap on a system... To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message