Linux-Hams archive - December 1998: Re: Dreaming the Impossible Dream ??
Re: Dreaming the Impossible Dream ??
Lloyd Sumpter (ocq.rmczuumsjw@isrparc.org)
Fri, 04 Dec 1998 15:00:19 -0800 (PST)
Sure. In fact, I was suprised that Redhat REQUIRED me to set up a swap
partition. I usually install without swap, then use a swapfile, so I can change
the size without messing with partitions. Slackware and, I believe, Caldera, do
not require swap, although they "recommend" it.
As long as you don't run X, you can run Linux in 8 MB without swap space. 12
Mb should be fine. (I wouldn't try X, though)
On 04-Dec-98 mcm wrote:
> So far, all of these suggested installations require swap space on a
> hard drive. I have an embedded system with 12M memory, but there is
> no way that I can devote any part of my flash drive to swap space.
>
> Is there anyway to run without swap for these types of installations?
>
> michael
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Date: 04-Dec-98
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