On Mar 6, 2006, at 4:04 PM, JT Moree wrote: > I'd bet after the install was mostly finished you'd use Ctrl > +Fsomething to manually setup the swap file in the target install.
Which is pretty much what I'm currently doing. > I'd guess you're trying to give them the equivalent of windows > swapfiles so that they dont have to make swap partitions. Yes. > There are very good reasons to have swap partitions instead of > files and I sometimes go the other way and make windows use a swap > partition. These are desktop machines, so I'm not too worried unless there is something really bad. Is there anything really bad about a swapfile? > Are they opposed to the idea of letting the installer make a swap > partition for them. It seems to me that you'll be creating more > work for no good reason. ;) The reason is more for cloning. Having a clone image with a single partition is less work for the volunteers doing the cloning: clone drive and then resize the filesystem. No messing with multiple partitions. Also, it's really easy to resize a swapfile on a running system (not so with a swap partition), although that's not likely to be an issue. And since we will eventually give those machines to the students, it would be nice to show them how Debian was installed on the machines. Going in by hand to create a swap file is just a bit more technical than if the installer had some magic way of specifying it. Remember the target audience is 4th-8th graders. Regards, - Robert http://www.cwelug.org/downloads Help others get OpenSource software. Distribute FLOSS for Windows, Linux, *BSD, and MacOS X with BitTorrent _______________________________________________ CWE-LUG mailing list [email protected] http://www.cwelug.org/ http://www.cwelug.org/archives/ http://www.cwelug.org/mailinglist/
