[Rule-list] Successful install of V0.1.1 on PC 14

[Martin Stricker]

Devon wrote:

> On Friday 08 March 2002 09:44 am, hairylarry at deltaboogie.com wrote:

> > According to Slack a good rule of thumb is swap doubles your
> > memory. That's what I did here. Would this hold true for 16M or 8M
> > systems? Would it hurt and 8M system to use 64M swap?
> 
> I believe double the RAM is a good rule of thumb. To be honest, I am
> not sure if having 32M of swap with 8M of RAM is of any real benefit.
> I would think 16M would be plenty. Anyone want a research project? ;)

If I find the time (maybe may...)

> My plan is that V0.1.2 will do the mkswap, and mke2fs commands for you
> after prompting for the devices. Hopefully you will be able to tell
> the installer hdb3 is /boot, hdb3 is /, hdb1 is swap, etc.

*snicker*

> There is work to do there, but not for V0.1.2. One step at a time.

Absolutely right. And you are at a really *fast* pace! Thumbs up!

Best regards,
Martin Stricker
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