Fwd: Re: [Rule-list] preparing Richard's laptop

[Devon]

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Subject: Re: [Rule-list] preparing Richard's laptop
Date: Tue, 19 Mar 2002 22:13:14 -0500
From: Devon <address@hidden>
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On Monday 18 March 2002 06:01 pm, Martin Stricker wrote:
> > The updates images are identical for 0.7.0 and 0.7.2
> > The boot images are slightly different. The 0.7.2 boot images have a
> > patch applied to loader.c to reduce the hard coded memory requirement
> > for network installs. (FTP  and HTTP installs)
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> What about the early swap hack of miniconda-0.7.1? Seems he really
> could use it.

It might be worth a try. You need an updates disk containing the file
fset.py. (This is not the same as the installer asking if you want to
turn on swap, which I believe is what Richard is refering to in his post)

If you use the 7.1 updates, and the disk is already partitioned, as soon
as the updates are loaded, you can switch to VT2 and say: 'swapon
/dev/hda(your swap partition)' With only one disk, I'd expect some
complaining from fdisk and friends when it tries to partition. I did
this, but used 2 disks.

I've also found the using the 0.7.1 updates and _not_ turning on swap
manually will usually cause the install to fail because no swap gets
turned on at all.

So, the option is there, give it a try if you like.

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