Swap Brainstorm (was Re: [Rule-list] Test of 0.6.3-small - the whole story)

Devon devon at tuxfan.homeip.net
Mon Feb 25 07:05:53 EET 2002


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On Sunday 24 February 2002 10:51 pm, Chuck Moss wrote:

> One problem I can see with this,   If you do this automatically
> in the installer you might have trouble re-partitioning the disk later
> in the install if you were already using the swap.  For a stock redhat
> install it makes sense to utilize the swap after you partition.
> For our purposes it could be a "super expert" mode of the stock
> installer. (always dwelling on the fact that we eventually want to roll
> our changes into the stock installer)

Currently, anaconda won't allow this anyway. It see's that the device is 
busy, and exits. You get one option, "press OK to reboot" :)
I'm made a couple of hacks to the anaconda code, and am currently testing 
another install.

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