-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 > These are desktop machines, so I'm not too worried unless there is > something really bad. Is there anything really bad about a swapfile? Not AFAIK, just make sure your swap file is a pre-allocated size so that you dont' run out of hard disk space and need to swap.
>>Are they opposed to the idea of letting the installer make a swap >>partition for them. It seems to me that you'll be creating more >>work for no good reason. ;) > > > The reason is more for cloning. Having a clone image with a single > partition is less work for the volunteers doing the cloning: clone How are you going to do your cloning? if it is automated then the swap partition can be automated too. > drive and then resize the filesystem. No messing with multiple > partitions. Also, it's really easy to resize a swapfile on a yes, that is the advantage. > running system (not so with a swap partition), although that's not > And since we will eventually give those machines to the students, it > would be nice to show them how Debian was installed on the machines. > Going in by hand to create a swap file is just a bit more technical > than if the installer had some magic way of specifying it. Remember > the target audience is 4th-8th graders. All the more reason to use a swap partition instead of a file. all linux's pretty much all unixes use swap partitions dont they. It's just one of those differences between *nix and windows. People will have to learn. It's not complicated. - -- JT Morée PC Xperience, Inc. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFEDNZQucZ4lMT2d5IRAqclAJ4uvm1RR+TceCodKBhfwXIUQsSfkwCfTiEJ ZKspkeNstPnq22a8bvnEhNQ= =0r8n -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. MailScanner thanks transtec Computers for their support. _______________________________________________ CWE-LUG mailing list [email protected] http://www.cwelug.org/ http://www.cwelug.org/archives/ http://www.cwelug.org/mailinglist/
