Re: Installer trases UUID of swap - was [Re: Change of UUID?]

[Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net>]

On 1/6/2017 10:44 AM, David Wright wrote:
> On Fri 06 Jan 2017 at 09:45:28 (-0600), Richard Owlett wrote:
> > On 9/23/2016 11:52 AM, Felix Miata wrote:
> > > [snip]
> > >
> > > The Debian installer reformats an existing swap, which means it
> > > gets a new UUID, unless you go out of your way to prevent it from
> > > doing so.
> >
> > I wish to go out of my way, so to speak.
> > Can you point me to "the road less traveled"?
> > My environment is a laptop dedicated to installing various
> > configurations of Jessie. It is extremely annoying that only the
> > last installed {and *most likely* to be removed} boots promptly -
> > the other installs having problems with finding an invalid UUID. I
> > gets worse as I occasionally install a system and its intended swap
> > partition to a flash drive - effectively clobbering all installs on
> > the laptop.
> > TIA
>
> If all you use this laptop for is installing jessie, is it
> necessary for you to have any swap available? Would that be
> something worth knowing?

Until doing an install to test Darac's suggestion, I haven't done 
an install since before Christmas. I admit that stability sets 
some sort of record for me ;) In general I doubt that I've 
actually have needed swap space.

I expect to go live on my Debian box very soon. I may make it 
before my Windows box has hardware failure.