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Re: BZ# 70477, unwanted swap partitions.



On Wed, 15 Aug 2007 13:31:27 +0200
Joel Andres Granados <jgranado redhat com> wrote:

> Successfully created a ignoreswadev ksoption.  It makes anaconda
> ignore the swap devices at install time and in the resulting fstab.
> There is still an issue regarding the installation,  When I tested a
> system that only had 1 swap device the installer froze.  When I
> increased ram it continued installing (vmware, basically increased
> from 256 to 512). Question: does anaconda need a swap partition to
> complete installation ?  I'll post the patch after some more tests :)

Under certain low memory situations anaconda will ask if it can mount
and use your configured swap space.  256 megs of ram sounds like such a
scenario.

-- 
Jesse Keating
Fedora -- All my bits are free, are yours?

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