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Re: lowmem and activating a swap partition in dbootstrap



Enrique Zanardi <ezanardi@ull.es> writes:

> On Wed, Apr 14, 1999 at 05:03:16AM -0400, Adam Di Carlo wrote:

> > The following is from http://www.ourmanpann.com/linux/lowmem.html.
> > Thoughts? 
> > 
> > It seems a bit too hairy to try to fix for slink.

> IIRC, it's fixed. The problem was that the lowmem disk didn't created
> an /etc/swaps file, and because of that, when dbootstrap started libfdisk
> couldn't detect there was a swap partition active. (Of course all that is
> not needed on 2.2.x kernels, where /proc/swaps exists).

No, it's still a problem.  I just confirmed it.  How can we fix it
properly for slink?

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.....Adam Di Carlo....adam@onShore.com.....<URL:http://www.onShore.com/>


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