Re: No swap for Debian preseed automated installation

2012-08-25 Thread Christofer C. Bell
On Fri, Aug 24, 2012 at 7:55 AM, ML mail mlnos...@yahoo.com wrote: That's good news, I didn't see that option in the Debian sample preseed config files. So as you recommended I checked the partman-basicfilesystems package from Ubuntu and found the template which does that. Now added the

Re: No swap for Debian preseed automated installation

2012-08-25 Thread Bob Proulx
Christofer C. Bell wrote: I'd ask you to keep in mind that even unused swap (meaning, you do not expect the system to need to swap) is still useful and valuable. Agreed. Sometimes processes ask for more memory than is available in the system. The kernel will not allow the process to run

Re: No swap for Debian preseed automated installation

2012-08-25 Thread Christofer C. Bell
On Sat, Aug 25, 2012 at 8:47 AM, Bob Proulx b...@proulx.com wrote: Christofer C. Bell wrote: That depends upon the Linux kernel setting of vm.overcommit_memory. I have ranted about this on a number of occasions. But the Linux kernel default is to overcommit. In which case swap is not used

No swap for Debian preseed automated installation

2012-08-24 Thread ML mail
Hi, I am currently creating a preseed file to get my server installed automatically over the network with PXE boot. This server will have no swap space but I have the problem that if I do not specify a swap space in my preseed configuration file the automated Debian installation stops and

Re: No swap for Debian preseed automated installation

2012-08-24 Thread Brian
On Fri 24 Aug 2012 at 05:22:01 -0700, ML mail wrote: I am currently creating a preseed file to get my server installed automatically over the network with PXE boot. This server will have no swap space but I have the problem that if I do not specify a swap space in my preseed configuration

Re: No swap for Debian preseed automated installation

2012-08-24 Thread ML mail
boolean false and am going to test it right now :) - Original Message - From: Brian a...@cityscape.co.uk To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Cc: Sent: Friday, August 24, 2012 2:41 PM Subject: Re: No swap for Debian preseed automated installation On Fri 24 Aug 2012 at 05:22:01 -0700, ML