Subject: Re: YDL Instaltion Woes
From: Bruce Thompson (Bruce.Thompson@corp.palm.com)
Date: Fri Jul 20 2001 - 08:44:56 MDT
From:
>Dr. Luke V. Schneider
[Snip]
>install I put the memory back in. Another hint. You must allocate
>at least as
>much space in the swap partition as you have RAM, and preferably
>2-3X more. If
>not, when YDL crashes, it overwrites both the root directory and the boot
>partition. A real pain.
Hi,
More to the point, the 2.4 series of the kernel _require_ a
minimum of twice RAM allocated as SWAP. There has been some talk on
the kernel mailing list of removing this requirement I believe, but
the requirement is real for now. It's a good rule of thumb anyway.
Cheers,
Bruce.
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