Re: [Rule-list] preparing Richard's laptop

[Martin Stricker]

Devon wrote:

> On Tuesday 19 March 2002 09:54 am, Richard Kweskin wrote:
> 
> > > What about the early swap hack of miniconda-0.7.1? Seems (Richard)
> > > really could use it.
> >
> > 0.7.0, as it was when I downloaded, has this.
> 
> See my previous post, I think we are talking about 2 different things.
> The installer asking to turn on swap is normal. The 0.7.1 updates
> allow you to do it manually _before_ the disks are partitioned.
> (provided the partitions already exist.) Another possibility, and I
> have not tried, is you may be able to run fdisk, mke2fs, and mkswap
> from VT2 as soon as the updates are read in.

BTDT, too, fdisk works quite nicely.

> The 0.7.1 fset.py file is a brutal hack, applying a sledgehammer to
> the anaconda error checking.

It's always amazing how useful these sledgehammers are... ;-)) You did
an astounding job on that hack, Devon, as you always do! :-))

Best regards,
Martin Stricker
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