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Peter Czanik wrote:
Hello, I work a lot with machines with limited amount of RAM, like:
I will add to this.
I don't remember if the yast install console (there is one available, don't remember the F-number) allow partitioning, but the rescue mode allows it.
however, with 10.2, when you _have_ made a swap partition, the automatic partitoner/installer is confused and don't allow to use it by default for the final install (it uses it for yast)
practically, what I did:
create a swap, mkswap, launch install... ok when come to partitioning (free disk), I was said that 3 partitions where needed: * my original swap one, * a new yast proposed swap partition, * the / partition.
I didn't too much look at the details (alas), go to expert mode, delete the new swap and / yast proposal, don't touch my swap one, and add all the rest as /
after that, yast complain it can't mount the /dev/hda1 partition on the "swap" mount point... may be my original swap part was reaffected by yast, but in a funny way :-).
I had only to go back to partitionner, assign and format my swap as swap, the rest as / and all goes well.
but, here, there are two potential problems:
* a pre-existing swap should be used as swap :-)) by default * why was a "swap" mount point ever proposed :-)
on such system, when a swap part is needed, creating it should be proposed
I would very well welcome this proposition on the short term. Yesterday i wanted to update 10.0 > 10.2, on a Compaq Armada E500, with 192MB Ram. (Not possible caused by unsolvable deps.) Yast suggested to use the available swap-partition, and continued. However, the new install somehow screwed the partition label, and install was terminated. W2K, and the 10.0 install unusable... Now i did re-install W2K, and am facing the same prob. It is solvable, but for people not as familiar, this would be: Not possible to install SuSE OS. This is the last thing we would want, i guess?
jdd
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