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Re: [Rule-list] Enabling swap early in vt2
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Devon |
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Re: [Rule-list] Enabling swap early in vt2 |
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Sat, 23 Mar 2002 20:05:12 -0500 |
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On Saturday 23 March 2002 07:16 pm, Richard Kweskin wrote:
> Of course, upon rebooting...
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> Might there be a swapoff procedure? If there is that could be done in
> vt2 just before picking "ok" in vt1 for fdisk to commit.
Yes, but I can almost guarantee that the results will be interesting if
you turn off swap at this point. ;)
The command is swapoff /dev/your_swap_partition
Expect a delay and a lot of disk activity while the system attempts to
comply. It's a pretty good bet the installer will run out of memory and
crash at 8M.
- -D
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pgp key: http://www.tuxfan.homeip.net:8080/pgpkey.txt
Red Hat Linux 7.2 in 8M of RAM: http://www.freesoftware.fsf.org/rule/
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[Rule-list] Emulating smaller memory sizes, Richard Kweskin, 2002/03/23