Re: SLES 11 SP 1 Bogus swap disk

2010-07-12 Thread Agblad Tore
From: Linux on 390 Port [linux-...@vm.marist.edu] On Behalf Of Rob van der Heij [rvdh...@gmail.com] Sent: Saturday, July 10, 2010 09:06 To: LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: SLES 11 SP 1 Bogus swap disk On Sat, Jul 10, 2010 at 1:46 AM, Shane G wrote: > Personally I've ne

Re: SLES 11 SP 1 Bogus swap disk

2010-07-10 Thread Rob van der Heij
On Sat, Jul 10, 2010 at 1:46 AM, Shane G wrote: > Personally I've never allowed _any_ installer to handle partitioning, > but I can appreciate your concern for the "novice" installer (person). > They will/should probably be using mod-9s anyway, rather than trying to > squeeze onto a mod3. At my

Re: SLES 11 SP 1 Bogus swap disk

2010-07-09 Thread Shane G
Maybe you should be thankful Mark didn't go with the default RoT of "swap=2xRAM" Personally I've never allowed _any_ installer to handle partitioning, but I can appreciate your concern for the "novice" installer (person). They will/should probably be using mod-9s anyway, rather than trying to sque

Re: SLES 11 SP 1 Bogus swap disk

2010-07-09 Thread Tom Duerbusch
I would agree that it wasn't a big deal to change, once I figured out what was happening. I would like to suggest, one of those great "notes" in the Deployment guide. They are real eye catchers when you print out the manual. For me, just another thing I skip over when I view online (I'm show

Re: SLES 11 SP 1 Bogus swap disk

2010-07-09 Thread Mark Post
This is the result of a feature request that I entered a long time ago. I didn't like the fact that on System z, users would get a "no partition proposal possible" type indication and they would have to go in and do everything from scratch. For people that aren't yet Linux savvy, this change i

SLES 11 SP 1 Bogus swap disk

2010-07-09 Thread Tom Duerbusch
I'm installing SLES 11 SP 1 under z/VM 5.2 on an IBM z/890. During the installation process, a swap disk is created on my dasda drive automatically by the install process. I have my own swap disks (vdisks) allocated and I don't want/need this swap disk. I can go into partitioning during the in