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Member since:Bob you are right 'bout heavy distro.
Yes that's a price I can pay for a nice desktop as opensuse is.
I'm used to see ``swaps" and I'm patient.
My issue, I try to explain better, is.
I booted the CD for a network installation.
It asked me a FTP server.
Another issue, I need to insert the IP address and the exactly directory.
With FreeBSD it shows me a list of ftp servers and I only need to choose one.
The problem was that at home I didn't have internet access and so I was not able to insert a valid ip, and a valid directory path.
It then loaded the kernel from a FTP server and after that it asked me:
too low memory please tell me a swap partition.
In pratice you have a dialog where you need to write:
/dev/hda1 (for example).
The dialog is a text GUI dialog.
At this point if you didn't have a previous swap partition created you cannot proceed with the installation.
And the installer at this stage doesn't give you any tools.
The Expert Settings are later, not at the first stage I'm referring to.
But suppose you had a previous swap, as I did by creating with debian, and you don't want to accept the default partioning schema, a later stage, there is another issue.
The current swap partion is used by the system because I don't have enough memory so If I try to create a new schema I cannot tell the installer to delete that swap partition and create a new one, for example with a better size, because deleting that swap partition my system will reset because it is using it.
My shame is not swaps, my shame is that to install it I need more than 128mb of ram.
Sincerely I don't see why an installer needs that much ram.
As a desktop I'm liking it, even if I have few ram, and I'm happy with it.
Only issue is that Jedit is a bit old, 4.1.
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2005-07-06
You have all of the tools you need. Just create a custom partition and make whatever partions you want. Swapon is automatic. I NEVER, repeat NEVER take "default" partitioning as it is NEVER to my liking. Go to the expert settings and there is a GREAT GUI partitioner that you can use...
Anyway, 128mb is a little thin for today's "heavy" distro's...it's a shame, but true. Even if it DID install well, the swap thrashing would be too much for me to take. Bloat, pure and simple...but there is a price to pay for all of the "features," no?