From owner-freebsd-current Sun Dec 1 1:25: 7 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 7BB9237B401 for ; Sun, 1 Dec 2002 01:25:05 -0800 (PST) Received: from HAL9000.homeunix.com (12-232-220-15.client.attbi.com [12.232.220.15]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C757643EB2 for ; Sun, 1 Dec 2002 01:25:04 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dschultz@uclink.Berkeley.EDU) Received: from HAL9000.homeunix.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by HAL9000.homeunix.com (8.12.6/8.12.5) with ESMTP id gB19P0OM002662; Sun, 1 Dec 2002 01:25:00 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dschultz@uclink.Berkeley.EDU) Received: (from das@localhost) by HAL9000.homeunix.com (8.12.6/8.12.5/Submit) id gB19P000002661; Sun, 1 Dec 2002 01:25:00 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dschultz@uclink.Berkeley.EDU) Date: Sun, 1 Dec 2002 01:25:00 -0800 From: David Schultz To: Giorgos Keramidas Cc: Marcin Dalecki , current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: sysinstall + swap partition requirement Message-ID: <20021201092500.GA2547@HAL9000.homeunix.com> Mail-Followup-To: Giorgos Keramidas , Marcin Dalecki , current@FreeBSD.ORG References: <3DE4DEE8.8000808@gmx.net> <20021127152134.GB609@gothmog.gr> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20021127152134.GB609@gothmog.gr> 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 Thus spake Giorgos Keramidas : > 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 up not using sysinstall to do the install after all, due to other problems that were made worse by a committer who broke some of the boot code and refused to revert the changes for a number of days. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message