Bug 629242

Summary: forces use of swap partition
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh>
Component: anacondaAssignee: Anaconda Maintenance Team <anaconda-maint-list>
Status: CLOSED NOTABUG QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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screenshot showing the swap-is-needed-to-compete-installation message none

Description Jan Engelhardt 2010-09-01 12:06:16 UTC 
Description of problem:
The graphical anaconda installer does not allow to create a custom partitioning layout where no swap partition is present.
(I don't like it if programs try to outsmart me..)

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
F-13-DVD

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Comment 1 Chris Lumens 2010-09-01 12:21:02 UTC 
How much memory do you have?
Comment 2 Jan Engelhardt 2010-09-01 12:29:36 UTC 
VM is configured for 512 MB.
Comment 3 Chris Lumens 2010-09-30 15:55:14 UTC 
You're right at the bottom of the amount of memory you can get away with.  anaconda is telling you to create a swap partition because it's very likely you will run into OOM errors later on in installation without one, which will create a pretty bug mess on the finished system if it even gets that far.
Comment 4 Steve Tyler 2010-09-30 17:09:20 UTC 
Created attachment 450819 [details]
screenshot showing the swap-is-needed-to-compete-installation message

The wording is awkward and vague.
How much memory do I have?
How much does the installer think it needs?

Fedora-13-x86_64-DVD.iso