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

[Devon]

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On Monday 25 February 2002 12:05 am, Devon wrote:

> 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.

OK, it works. It's a brutal hack, and needs to be properly written into 
the code. Basically, I disabled error checking on swap setup and 
initialization in fsset.py. It works with 2 disks, haven't had the chance 
to try it on a single disk. It is currently installing into 8M of RAM. 
12M installed and rebooted without difficulty. During partitioning, 2 
warning screens come up, and you have to say "OK" to continue.

If anyone is brave and has some spare time on their hands.....
The boot images are unchanged. The updates are the same with 
the addition of the new fsset.py file.
The file is:
http://www.tuxfan.homeip.net:8080/rule/fsset.py
Just add that file to the root directory of the updates disk.
The complete updates tarball is:
http://www.tuxfan.homeip.net:8080/rule/updates-v0.7.1.tar

Don't try this anywhere near a production box, please? ;)

- -D

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