Re: debian installation woes
I thought that might be the case. However anyone
installing debian 2.1 would still be using the 2.0
kernel and have the 128mb limit. Anyway few people
would need that much swap anyway.
--- Brian Servis <servis@purdue.edu> wrote:
> *- On 2 Nov, Kenneth Scharf wrote about "Re: debian
> installation woes"
>
> > 3: swap 127 megs (no swap may exceed 128mb, but
> you
> > can have more than one. Rummor has it that swap
>
> This 128M limit is no longer true in 2.2.x kernels.
> From the Changes
> file in the kernel source documentation
>
> Util-linux (including mount)
> ============================
>
> Among other changes made in the development of
> Linux kernel 2.2, the
> 128 meg limit on IA32 swap partition sizes has been
> eliminated. To use
> larger swap spaces, you need the new mkswap found in
> util-linux. You
> also need to upgrade util-linux to get the latest
> version of mount.
>
> Brian Servis
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