On Fri 06 Jan 2017 at 09:45:28 (-0600), Richard Owlett wrote: > On 9/23/2016 11:52 AM, Felix Miata wrote: > >[snip] > > > >The Debian installer reformats an existing swap, which means it > >gets a new UUID, unless you go out of your way to prevent it from > >doing so. > > > > I wish to go out of my way, so to speak. > Can you point me to "the road less traveled"? > My environment is a laptop dedicated to installing various > configurations of Jessie. It is extremely annoying that only the > last installed {and *most likely* to be removed} boots promptly - > the other installs having problems with finding an invalid UUID. I > gets worse as I occasionally install a system and its intended swap > partition to a flash drive - effectively clobbering all installs on > the laptop. > TIA
If all you use this laptop for is installing jessie, is it necessary for you to have any swap available? Would that be something worth knowing? Cheers, David.