Re: So much for a wheezy install, massive fail
On Thursday 22 January 2015 14:26:02 Brian did opine
And Gene did reply:
> On Thu 22 Jan 2015 at 13:31:36 -0500, Gene Heskett wrote:
> > On Thursday 22 January 2015 09:42:13 Gary Dale did opine
> >
> > > 50G for swap?!
> >
> > The partitioner that sets this up previously setup a bit over 2x the
> > memory, 18Gb for swap, then surveyed the system and found 2 more
> > swaps, dutifully adding then to the /etc/fstab it wrote. So at that
> > point I had nearly 50Gb of swap available in 3 pieces/drives.
>
> "dutifully" means d-i did what you told it to do. You could tell it not
> to use some partitions. You can even tell it how much swap to use.
>
> You haven't a clue what you are doing when you are partitioning, have
> you?
Not really, I have only been doing it since 1985 or 6. :)
> [Snip]
>
> > Removing the boot partition removes the guarantee that boot related
> > files will be within reach of the bios. However, 50Gb is out of
> > line as I have been using 1Gb for years, which has all sorts of
> > cruft I haven't used in yonks in it. So I'll likely fix that and
> > slide the rest of it back out before I put another install disk in
> > the optical drive.
>
> I wish I could understood this; particularly the first sentence.
Sounds to me like you need to go talk to an old timer. Have you got a Sid
Dabster lookalike around your place? He would be a good start. Longer
white beard than mine, and a coffee cup super-glued to his right hand.
Old bios could not reach more that 10 megs into the drive to get their
boot stuffs. Then they worked on it in the late 90's and made it capable
of reaching 1000 cylinders in, and IIRC it was about 10 years ago when I
put a new biostar board together and found it could reach farther than
that. Most of the 64 bit bios's have now blown that limit out to 4GB or
past it IIRC.
That is a guess of course, a SWAG if you will, as I haven't studied or
tested recently, like since 2007 or 2008. If it doesn't get in my way,
its not a problem, right?
Cheers, Gene Heskett
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