Bug 22395

Summary: [RFE] installer requires swap partition
Product: [Retired] Red Hat Linux Reporter: Ed McKenzie <eem12>
Component: anacondaAssignee: Michael Fulbright <msf>
Status: CLOSED RAWHIDE QA Contact: Brock Organ <borgan>
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Description Ed McKenzie 2000-12-17 03:40:41 UTC 
The current installer doesn't permit installs without swap, choosing instead to pout and whine. Anaconda puts every partition labeled 0x82 into 
/etc/fstab as swap without even asking -- that'd be fine, except that's not really my preferred method of accessing Solaris/x86 partitions.

If the user doesn't specify a swap partition but has enough disk space, anaconda should optionally create a swap file on the filesystem. Blindly 
mounting all 0x82 partitions as swap, though, is dangerous.
Comment 1 Michael Fulbright 2000-12-18 17:29:56 UTC 
Adding to future feature requests that we will evaluate at a later time.

Thank you for the suggestion.
Comment 2 Jeremy Katz 2001-09-10 21:09:48 UTC 
The current beta release of Red Hat Linux (Roswell) will allow you to continue
to install without any swap (although it will warn you appropriately).