On Fri, 4 Dec 1998, Lloyd Sumpter wrote:
> 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)
Linux itself may be happy without swap space, but you may have to be
careful what applications you run. Standard Unix commands will probably be
OK with as little as 2M to 4M of real memory (after all, they all had
their origins in pre-PC time), but I wouldn't expect emacs or gcc or other
major programs of the GNU era to run without something like 16M of
combined real memory + swap. And some programs may balk at running with no
swap even with 16M or 32M of real memory.
> > 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.
73, Al N1AW
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