If memory serves, GRML didn't care whether you had a swap partition or not, but might find it if you did have one. I thought the default using grml2hd was to install on one partition (I always used /dev/hda1) and use a swap file. Hope that's useful. Al ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jude DaShiell" <jdashiel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> Sent: Saturday, August 11, 2007 5:59 PM Subject: grml 1.0 hasn't installed yet > I used fdisk and created hda1 as type 82 linux swap/solaris. I created > hda2 as the slash partition. grml2hd now complains about hda1 not seeming > to be a linux partition and it's right that could be a solaris partition > too. What I don't know is if I create a 20gb partition and leave 256MB > without a partition is grml2hd capable of making that 256MB a swap > partition by itself or will it freak out again since it wasn't given a > swap partition? I could also simply partition the whole 20GB as a single > type 83 linux partition and find out if grml2hd will freak out over not > having a swap partition available. Normally when possible I make the swap > partition the first since that way I have the right size for it and on > versions of Linux that will allow it I can use the rest of the drive for > remaining partitions. > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > > -- > No virus found in this incoming message. > Checked by AVG Free Edition. > Version: 7.5.476 / Virus Database: 269.11.13/946 - Release Date: 8/10/2007 3:50 PM > >
