Date: Wed, 27 Nov 2002 17:21:34 +0200 From: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr> To: Marcin Dalecki <mdcki@gmx.net> Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: sysinstall + swap partition requirement Message-ID: <20021127152134.GB609@gothmog.gr> In-Reply-To: <3DE4DEE8.8000808@gmx.net> References: <3DE4DEE8.8000808@gmx.net>
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On 2002-11-27 16:04, Marcin Dalecki <mdcki@gmx.net> 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. 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). To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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