Date: Wed, 27 Nov 2002 17:33:49 +0100 From: Marcin Dalecki <mdcki@gmx.net> To: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr> Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: sysinstall + swap partition requirement Message-ID: <3DE4F3ED.8070709@gmx.net> References: <3DE4DEE8.8000808@gmx.net> <20021127152134.GB609@gothmog.gr>
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Giorgos Keramidas wrote: > 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. Yes but I would rather preferr to do SWAP to file. > 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). Yes I have tried this. But apparently sysinstall *still* enforced the presence of a SWAP parition. Anyway I will try to nuke the swap parition by using growfs. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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