Comment 6 for bug 40788
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| Joakim Larsson (joakim-bildrulle) wrote Re: Espresso should not format swap partitions | #6 |
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From duplicate bug #65018:
I have tried for a while to install different brands of Ubuntu Dapper Drake 6.06 on a 400 MHz iMac DV with 128 Mb RAM. I finally got it right but it was not out of the box. One problem was that the installer turned of the swap once I fugured out that one was needed to be able to install at all.
Workaround for this problem could be 'cp /bin/true /sbin/swapoff'
I think that the live cd has to consider the following:
- If no swap is present on lowmemory machines create (a temporary?) one before entering X, otherwise the system will be hogged by decompressing pages from the squashfs on the CD and freeze doing this.
- The installer should not do a swapoff but also be able to resuse the swap partition and even not consider to initialize the swap if it is used already.
My workaround resulted in creating a new swap so now I have two.