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Apologies to Mr. Bell for light hearted change of Subject ;)
Christofer C. Bell wrote:
On Mon, Jun 18, 2012 at 7:29 AM, Richard Owlett<rowl...@cloud85.net> wrote:
What's even more annoying (ascetically) is that I can not see a way for
multiple simultaneous installs to use the same swap space. After all, only
only one install will be in use at a time.
This stood out to me reading this thread. While I may be missing some
background (I could't find any in the thread), multiple simultaneous
installs using the same swap space refers to having multiple Linux
installs simultaneously on a machine all referencing the same disk
partition for their swap space. It does not refer to them all
*running* at the same time which is, of course, impossible.
AGREE!
For example, say swap is /dev/sda6 (reasonable, it's the first logical
partition), and you have 3 different Linux installs, say Ubuntu,
Debian, and Fedora, then all 3 of these will reference /dev/sda6 as
their swap partition. Since swap is "scratch space" the content of it
only matters while it's actively in use. Once the operating system
has shut down, it can be mounted by any other booted Linux
installation and used as swap.
YEPP!
If you boot Ubuntu, /dev/sda6 will be used as swap. You then shut
down Ubuntu and boot Debian, Ubuntu releases /dev/sda6 as it's
shutting down and Debian mounts it as it's starting up. Debian is now
using /dev/sda6 as its swap partition. The same happens when you shut
down Debian and boot Fedora.
YEPP**999
If I'm missing what the issue is, forgive me, but this is the answer
to what I *think* your question is. :-)
LOL**(1./0.) [as I do not have infinity on my keyboard ;]
Instead of having Ubuntu, Debian, and Fedora pesent, I wish
multiple versions of Debian. But in any case the Debian
installer seems to ignore *FACT* that there is already a
partition designated as swap.
What makes it "cruel and deviant" punishment is that it was
a previous instance of "Debian installer" which had declared
said space to be "*SWAP SPACE*" ;<
Am I missing something?
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