> What I do is to just activate the swap in /etc/init.d/boot.local .  It
> looks something like:
>
> /sbin/mkswap /dev/dasd/ff00/part1
> /sbin/mkswap /dev/dasd/ff01/part1
> /sbin/mkswap /dev/dasd/ff02/part1
> /sbin/mkswap /dev/dasd/ff03/part1
> /sbin/swapon /dev/dasd/ff00/part1 -p 4
> /sbin/swapon /dev/dasd/ff01/part1 -p 3
> /sbin/swapon /dev/dasd/ff02/part1 -p 2
> /sbin/swapon /dev/dasd/ff03/part1 -p 1
>
> Then I can control in the VM directory the sizes and if the disk(s)
> exist.  The mkswap runs really really fast and no messing with
> /etc/fstab (or even logging in to linux to change it).
>
>
>
> Marcy Cortes

This works well, thanks. SLES10 by default looks for swapspace in fstab
before boot.local runs. As a test I was able to bring up SLES10 with 40M
with this config, so unless anything changes in the future regarding
memory demand before the network connection starts, we should be OK.

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