[Preston] Re: Installing Fedora Core 1

[Garry Taylor]

On Wednesday 24 Mar 2004 11:06 am, Granville Cousins wrote:
> Thanks for your help. What I needed to do was to create a SWAP
> partition before installing Fedora Core.

This is really strange, I thought that swap space was not vital to the 
operation of the OS, if you had enough RAM. Therfore you could simply, not 
have a swap partition.

Prices of todays memory, who really needs swap. Good idea at the time but 
obsolite now. I would rather have a message say "out of memory" than my 
system grinding down to a hault.

So should modern installers not test to see if the memory is enough to bypass 
the swap partition, and leave room for me to install more Open Source 
goodies.

Gizard