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Re: Swap Brainstorm (was Re: [Rule-list] Test of 0.6.3-small - the whole
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Chuck Moss |
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Re: Swap Brainstorm (was Re: [Rule-list] Test of 0.6.3-small - the whole story) |
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Sun, 24 Feb 2002 22:51:20 -0500 |
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On Fri, Feb 22, 2002 at 09:53:55AM -0700, Scott Hallock wrote:
> [most of the message from Devon has been elided, I just left a couple
> of relavant quotes.]
> > All normal (the delays) when you have stretched the memory limits of the
> > installer. The message above is the amount of swap that the
> > autopartition utility would suggest, and is also normal.
> .
> .
> .
> >
> > Yes, once we can get swap turned on, things go pretty well.
>
> I've been pondering the problem of having to do so much initial work
> without swap for, well, a few years now. It seems like we would
> have much better luck installing in extremely low memory situations
> if we could find and activate some swap very early in the boot
> process.
>
> Suppose a user could arrange for MBR partition 0 of the first BIOS drive
> to be set up as a reasonably-sized partition with a Linux swap partition
> identifier before attempting to boot the installer.[1] Would it be
> possible to modifiy the installer init scripts to run a program or programs
> that identify this situation, and immediately run mkswap and swapon on the
> pre-made swap partition? Would doing so help the install process at all,
> or is the size of the initrd what's killing us?
>
> Forgive me if these questions sound stupid. I know next to nothing
> about how Red Hat installs itself these days. Writing the program
> to identify a pre-made swap partition is probably not beyond my
> abilities, but I have no idea if I could insert it into the Red Hat
> installation process.
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)
Chuck
- [Rule-list] Re: Swap Brainstorm, (continued)
- [Rule-list] Re: Swap Brainstorm, Devon, 2002/02/23
- Re: [Rule-list] Re: Swap Brainstorm, Marco Fioretti, 2002/02/24
- Re: [Rule-list] Re: Swap Brainstorm, Scott Hallock, 2002/02/24
- Re: [Rule-list] Re: Swap Brainstorm, Devon, 2002/02/26
- Re: [Rule-list] Re: Swap Brainstorm, Scott Hallock, 2002/02/27
- Re: [Rule-list] Re: Swap Brainstorm, Martin Stricker, 2002/02/27
- Re: [Rule-list] Re: Swap Brainstorm, Devon, 2002/02/28
- Re: [Rule-list] Re: Swap Brainstorm, Devon, 2002/02/27
- Re: [Rule-list] Re: Swap Brainstorm, James, 2002/02/28
- Re: [Rule-list] Re: Swap Brainstorm, Martin Stricker, 2002/02/24
- Re: Swap Brainstorm (was Re: [Rule-list] Test of 0.6.3-small - the whole story),
Chuck Moss <=
- [Rule-list] Re: Swap Brainstorm...., Marco Fioretti, 2002/02/24
- Re: Swap Brainstorm (was Re: [Rule-list] Test of 0.6.3-small - the whole story), Devon, 2002/02/25
- Re: Swap Brainstorm (was Re: [Rule-list] Test of 0.6.3-small - the whole story), Devon, 2002/02/25
- Re: Swap Brainstorm (was Re: [Rule-list] Test of 0.6.3-small - the whole story), James, 2002/02/25
- Re: Swap Brainstorm (was Re: [Rule-list] Test of 0.6.3-small - the whole story), Devon, 2002/02/25
- Re: Swap Brainstorm (was Re: [Rule-list] Test of 0.6.3-small - the whole story), James, 2002/02/25
- Re: Swap Brainstorm (was Re: [Rule-list] Test of 0.6.3-small - the whole story), James, 2002/02/25
- Re: Swap Brainstorm (was Re: [Rule-list] Test of 0.6.3-small - the whole story), Devon, 2002/02/25
- Re: Swap Brainstorm (was Re: [Rule-list] Test of 0.6.3-small - the whole story), James, 2002/02/25
- Re: Swap Brainstorm (was Re: [Rule-list] Test of 0.6.3-small - the whole story), Devon, 2002/02/25