[Rule-list] Re: Swap Brainstorm

Devon devon at tuxfan.homeip.net
Thu Feb 28 07:02:25 EET 2002


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On Wednesday 27 February 2002 11:48 am, Martin Stricker wrote:

> Just an idea in the wild: Would it be possible to alter anaconda on a
> foot floppy so that it would only ask for the language and keyboard and
> then goes into partitioning and exits after that? Especially modified
> for small memory footprint? I think that would be very user-friendly.

Possibly. The main problem I see is that it is the partitioning stage of 
the install that is causing us the most difficulty at 8M. Without swap 
enabled, getting even that far along may be a problem. We'll have to look 
into it, and see where it takes us.

- -D

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