[GLLUG] Damn Installers!

[Chick Tower]

I just learned something today.  If you install more than one version or 
distro of Linux to a PC, and the last installation insists upon 
formatting the partitions you set up, you might have to modify your 
fstab files in the other installations.  I tried to use the same swap 
partition with a new installation of CrunchBang Linux, which it insisted 
it format.  Since it was already a swap partition, I saw no harm in 
that.  However, when I booted the other Linux, it ran extremely slowly, 
and I finally noticed that it had no swap.  The original Linux 
installation's fstab specified the partitions by UUID, and formatting 
the swap partition changed its UUID, so I was painfully inconvenienced 
the next time I tried doing much on the original Linux installation 
since that PC has only 128MB of RAM.
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                                Chick