From owner-freebsd-current Wed Nov 27 7:21:42 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 1A99937B401 for ; Wed, 27 Nov 2002 07:21:41 -0800 (PST) Received: from mailsrv.otenet.gr (mailsrv.otenet.gr [195.170.0.5]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9144E43EA9 for ; Wed, 27 Nov 2002 07:21:39 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) Received: from gothmog.gr (patr530-b165.otenet.gr [212.205.244.173]) by mailsrv.otenet.gr (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id gARFLahH025831; Wed, 27 Nov 2002 17:21:37 +0200 (EET) Received: from gothmog.gr (gothmog [127.0.0.1]) by gothmog.gr (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id gARFLa7W001145; Wed, 27 Nov 2002 17:21:36 +0200 (EET) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) Received: (from keramida@localhost) by gothmog.gr (8.12.6/8.12.6/Submit) id gARFLZDr001144; Wed, 27 Nov 2002 17:21:35 +0200 (EET) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) Date: Wed, 27 Nov 2002 17:21:34 +0200 From: Giorgos Keramidas To: Marcin Dalecki Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: sysinstall + swap partition requirement Message-ID: <20021127152134.GB609@gothmog.gr> References: <3DE4DEE8.8000808@gmx.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <3DE4DEE8.8000808@gmx.net> 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 On 2002-11-27 16:04, Marcin Dalecki 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