https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=340153#c2 --- Comment #2 from Steffen Winterfeldt 2007-11-08 05:05:03 MST --- Checking for a valid swap sig would be ok. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=340153 Thomas Göttlicher changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- CC| |tgoettlicher@novell.com AssignedTo|yast2-maintainers@suse.de |fehr@novell.com -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=340153 User matt@genesi-usa.com added comment https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=340153#c4 --- Comment #4 from Matt Sealey 2008-10-24 13:44:40 MDT --- Nudging this bug as it's still open and not sure of the status. I will test the swap activation this weekend (mem=256, precreated file on USB using dd) and see what happens and report back. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=340153 User matt@genesi-usa.com added comment https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=340153#c6 Matt Sealey changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|NEW |NEEDINFO Component|Installation |Installation Info Provider| |aschnell@novell.com Product|openSUSE 11.0 |openSUSE 11.1 Target Milestone|--- |Future/Later Version|Alpha 2 |Beta 5 --- Comment #6 from Matt Sealey 2008-11-24 13:54:32 MST --- Bump! The swap activation seems to be okay now but it relies on user interaction (to pick a file from somewhere) or worse, having a dedicated partition for it for addswap= parameter which requires manually partitioning the disk beforehand or using an evil slow USB stick (which still has to be chosen). Is it possible to activate swap and modify the addswap= parameter such that it uses Linuxrc paths instead of finding a block device entry from somewhere? This would help for the case where a file must be used. We have a use case where we want to configure a disk automatically and then reboot into the SuSE installer. The most comfortable way is to format a disk with a single partition for SuSE (with mke2fs -j -I 128 -L openSuSE-Foo /dev/sdaN) and then create a swap file on this partition both to reduce the amount of partitioning needed and alleviate the need for seperate partitions for boot (which overcomplicates matters when multiple installs are used, especially on MBR) and to reduce fragmentation of the swap file. The required boot line would then be something like boot hd:0 inst32 install=http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/11.1/repo/oss addswap=file:/swapfile?device=*label/openSuSE-Foo or hd:/swapfile?device=*label/openSuSE-Foo or whatever the thing would be. In the use case where a swap file is on a disk where SUSE is installed to (with a custom partition setup and not formatted) then ideally this would be passed into fstab such that it is activated at boot.swap time? This sort of includes the other bug report of a similar nature, https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=438890 which I am about to mark as a duplicate of this bug.. :] As a side note I wonder is there any way to pass in a parameter without using AutoYaST to pick the device to install *TO* (possibly allowing some NFS urls to be dropped in) - or an easy way to make an AutoYaST image which can be passed in and somehow allow us to push an installation to an arbitrary partition which has already been formatted.. I know these are quite weird requirements but it makes the installation and testing of systems across our worldwide development team much less full of woe and despair and everyone having a different system setup by way of forgetting to click a button or having a personal preference..? -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.