Re: [Cooker] Installation - swap partition now a requirement

2003-01-13 Thread Pixel 
Elliott Martin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> I decided to do a clean install of 9.1b1 and have discovered that a swap
> partition is now a requirement even if you do an expert install. Could the
> installer be made to ignore the presence of a swap partition during an
> expert installation as it was before?

fixed: in all installs, you now get 

  "You don't have a swap partition. Continue anyway?"

Re: [Cooker] Installation - swap partition now a requirement

2003-01-12 Thread roger 
On Sun, 2003-01-12 at 22:00, J. Greenlees wrote:
> 
> 
> Elliott Martin wrote:
> > Hello,
> > I decided to do a clean install of 9.1b1 and have discovered that a swap
> > partition is now a requirement even if you do an expert install. Could the
> > installer be made to ignore the presence of a swap partition during an
> > expert installation as it was before? I'd hate to have the installer push
> > me off mandrake linux :P
> > -Elliott
> 
> and with a journalised file system the swap partition is actually 
> extremely useful, it helps avoid data loss when writing to hard drive.
> from my quick looks at other ditro's they all require a swap partition 
> as well, no way around it with journalised file systems.

odd. well with > 1GB of Ram systems, I thought swap wasn't really
needed.

matter of fact, my system rarely touches swap with 1GB of ram...if it
even has!  Yea, don't think i've ever used swap on a 1GB ram system.

Basically, I try to avoid using swap at all costs.  I even hate how the
kernel uses up the remaining about of ram on this laptop that has 512MB
ram and uses it as cache.  Having to end up using swap on a laptop is
somewhat power consuming!

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Re: [Cooker] Installation - swap partition now a requirement

2003-01-12 Thread J. Greenlees 


Elliott Martin wrote:

Hello,
I decided to do a clean install of 9.1b1 and have discovered that a swap
partition is now a requirement even if you do an expert install. Could the
installer be made to ignore the presence of a swap partition during an
expert installation as it was before? I'd hate to have the installer push
me off mandrake linux :P
-Elliott


and with a journalised file system the swap partition is actually 
extremely useful, it helps avoid data loss when writing to hard drive.
from my quick looks at other ditro's they all require a swap partition 
as well, no way around it with journalised file systems.

[Cooker] Installation - swap partition now a requirement

2003-01-12 Thread Elliott Martin 
Hello,
I decided to do a clean install of 9.1b1 and have discovered that a swap
partition is now a requirement even if you do an expert install. Could the
installer be made to ignore the presence of a swap partition during an
expert installation as it was before? I'd hate to have the installer push
me off mandrake linux :P
-Elliott