[Preston] Re: Installing Fedora Core 1

[Mike Williams]

On 24 Mar 2004 at 11:19, Garry Taylor wrote:

> 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.

Who left this pool of gasoline lying around?

[Tosses ciggie butt end into it ...
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TTFN

Mike
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