Re: HP LH3 & Linux alternate question

Rik van Riel (H.H.vanRiel@phys.uu.nl)
Wed, 30 Sep 1998 23:45:56 +0200 (CEST)


On Wed, 30 Sep 1998, Seth Rosen wrote:

> Do I need a swap partition with 640meg of main memory? 'Cause I'm
> going to install to a non-RAID drive to see what can be done to make
> drivers for this machine.

If you're just going to install the new drive, you won't
need swap. Once you get up and running and need multiple
hundreds of megabytes of memory, it might just be nice
to have a piece of swap lying around ;)

Just in case that 1.3 GB application comes around...

Rik.
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