According to Lloyd Sumpter: While burning my CPU.
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> 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)
If you decide to run linux "without" swap space, sooner or later a program
will come along and knock your system over, my old 386 with 2 megs of ram
was swapping even before it let me loggin.
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> 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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