[Gllug] Source-only distro / Swap space

[Jim Cheetham]

On Fri, Feb 01, 2002 at 04:40:48PM -0000, Paul Brazier wrote:
> This looks interesting, a linux distro where everything is compiled from
> source at installation:
> 
> http://distrowatch.com/review-sorcerer.php

Just a note - the distrowatch article quotes Sorcerer re swap ...
You can then proceed with selecting your root partition and its file system (ext2, ext3, ReiserFS and XFS are offered) and a swap partition. You will be advised to create a large swap partition, the basic rule is that your amount of RAM plus the size of swap partition should be at least 1 GB. Do not ignore this advice! Although the installer will complete the installation even if the above condition is not met, you will run into trouble later when trying to compile large programs and get frequent "out of memory" errors.

:-)

-jim

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