https://help.ubuntu.com/11.04/installation-guide/i386/apcs03.html out of date example and information on swap size limits

Bug #875410 reported by fugounashi
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https://help.ubuntu.com/11.04/installation-guide/i386/apcs03.html Recommended Partitioning Scheme hasn't been updated since at least 8.04 (and probably lot longer). it probably hasn't been updated for 11.10 either but it isn't online yet...

in particular:

> On 32-bit architectures (i386, m68k, 32-bit SPARC, and PowerPC), the maximum size of a swap partition is 2GB

this limitation was removed after 2.3.3, and referred to swap areas in general not just partitions

> As an example, an older home machine might have 32MB of RAM and a 1.7GB IDE drive

you get the idea...

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fugounashi (fugounashi+launchpad) wrote :

11.10 is online now and has the same issues

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