Re: Swap Brainstorm (was Re: [Rule-list] Test of 0.6.3-small - the whole story)

[James]

On Mon, 25 Feb 2002 00:32:21 -0500
Devon <address@hidden> wrote:

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> On Monday 25 February 2002 12:05 am, Devon wrote:
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> > Currently, anaconda won't allow this anyway. It see's that the device
> > is busy, and exits. You get one option, "press OK to reboot" :)
> > I'm made a couple of hacks to the anaconda code, and am currently
> > testing another install.
> 
> OK, it works. It's a brutal hack, and needs to be properly written into 
> the code. Basically, I disabled error checking on swap setup and 
> initialization in fsset.py. It works with 2 disks, haven't had the
chance 
> to try it on a single disk. It is currently installing into 8M of RAM. 
> 12M installed and rebooted without difficulty. During partitioning, 2 
> warning screens come up, and you have to say "OK" to continue.
> 
> If anyone is brave and has some spare time on their hands.....
> The boot images are unchanged. The updates are the same with 
> the addition of the new fsset.py file.
> The file is:
> http://www.tuxfan.homeip.net:8080/rule/fsset.py
> Just add that file to the root directory of the updates disk.
> The complete updates tarball is:
> http://www.tuxfan.homeip.net:8080/rule/updates-v0.7.1.tar
> 
> Don't try this anywhere near a production box, please? ;)

Uh,,, the production box is about 3 feet away... far enough?  Seriously
though think it might work on that laptop I was trying out earlier?  If so
I'll bite.

James

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