[GLLUG] Damn Installers!

[Robert Roosa]

Something to keep in mind I think is that even most "older" hardware 
these days has at least 1GB of ram, making a swap essentially useless. 
Obviously, in a situation like yours with 128MB (I am assuming PC66 
SDRAM, or PC100 SDRAM) a swap is absolutely necessary, but I think many 
users could get away without a swap with as little as 1GB of ram. In my 
experience, even when using current full flavor distros (not lightened 
up LXDE stuff), I still don't even touch 1GB of physical memory usage 
even without a swap.

Take that for what it is of course. I use my distros for BOINC, music, 
browsing the web, and Open Office.

Have a nice day,

Robert

On 6/28/2011 10:45 PM, Chick Tower wrote:
> 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.