[Rule-list] Ok,,, but what if you don't have a cdrom

Scott Hallock scott at hallocks.net
Sun Feb 24 19:49:40 EET 2002


> I'm going to look into the possibility of getting some swap turned on 
> earlier. I did manage to use a floppy as swap. It was an interesting 
> experience, to say the least. ;)
> However, to the best of my knowledge, the swap must be formated as such. 
> I don't believe a dos partition will do the trick.

I'm assuming that the mkswap binary is available on the installation boot
image.  Otherwise, mkswap couldn't happen from within anaconda, yes?  If
mkswap is availble, all we have to do is ask that the user arrange for
a partition identified as "Linux swap" exist beforehand.

Scott

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