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From: jcargill@oka.cs.wisc.edu (Jon Cargille)
Subject: Re: Out of memory?
Message-ID: <1993Mar26.202356.28603@cs.wisc.edu>
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Organization: Univ. of Wisconsin CS Dept
References: <crt.732897369@tiamat.umd.umich.edu> <1993Mar23.160203.3825@coe.montana.edu> <summer.732933611@mullian.ee.Mu.OZ.AU>
Date: Fri, 26 Mar 1993 20:23:56 GMT
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In article <summer.732933611@mullian.ee.Mu.OZ.AU> summer@ee.mu.OZ.AU (Mark Summerfield) writes:
>
>Umm, I'm about to install -- I want 32M swap, and I know this in advance.
>Is there some way of telling install this (I can't recall reading anything
>about it in the INSTALL.NOTES or the FAQ), or am I going to have to install,
>use disklabel and reinstall?  If so, what is involved with this -- how much
>of the installation procedure do I have to go through before going back,
>and how do I reinstall (presumably just running install again will return
>the 5MB swap partition)?
>
>Thanks,

Unfortunately, there's no way to tell 'install' how much swap you
want.  The only way I've been able to get what I wanted was to use
cgd's "custom installation instructions".  They are included in the
FAQ on agate.

Hopefully a future version of 'install' will solve this...

Good luck,

Jon
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