Bug 955 - Kickstart installation doesent allow more than 128M of swap
Summary: Kickstart installation doesent allow more than 128M of swap
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Status: CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE
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Product: Red Hat Linux
Classification: Retired
Component: installer
Version: 5.2
Hardware: i386
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Matt Wilson
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 1999-01-25 04:07 UTC by ahoyer
Modified: 2008-05-01 15:37 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2000-02-10 18:57:17 UTC
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Description ahoyer 1999-01-25 04:07:18 UTC
When using the kickstart option, if you need more than 128M
of swap, the kickstart setup will fail.  More than 1 swap
partition isn't allowed either.

Comment 1 Matt Wilson 1999-03-13 21:34:59 UTC
128M is a hard kernel swap limit for i386 under 2.0.x kernels.
Looking at the code, multiple swap partitions should work by doing
more than one "part swap --size 32" line.  What error do you get?

Comment 2 Matt Wilson 1999-03-13 22:11:59 UTC
Also, swap partitions up to 2 GB are supported in the next release of
Red Hat Linux.

Comment 3 ahoyer 1999-03-14 01:12:59 UTC
The idea behind the problem is that I need 256M of swap.  Reading the
howto's it says that that one can have multiple 128M swap partitions
or files to add up to a max of 2 Gb or something like that. So more
than one "part swap --size 128" didn't work for me.

Comment 4 Matt Wilson 1999-04-01 06:01:59 UTC
Dave can you please verify?

Comment 5 David Lawrence 1999-06-30 16:21:59 UTC
I have verified that on both 5.2 and 6.0 the installer ignores more
than one swap partition line in the ks.cfg file. This has been
assigned to a developer for further review.

Comment 6 Jay Turner 2000-02-10 18:56:59 UTC
This issue is resolved in the current release.


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