I'd do exactly as Darac suggests, with one adjustment:

On Fri, Jan 06, 2017 at 04:26:55PM +0000, Darac Marjal wrote:
> My thoughts would be to mark the partition you wish to use as swap as "Do
> not use" in the installer. Then, on the first boot, add the partition
> manually to /etc/fstab:
> 
> UUID=...      none    swap    sw      0       0

I'd add a "mkswap /dev/disk/by-uuid/<whatever>" here, with one extra 
suggestion...

> If you then wish to use that swap without rebooting, run "swapon --all".

I would suggest exactly the above; except, I'd label the swap partition "swap"
(by adding "-L" in the mkswap invocation), use LABEL=swap in the fstab and set
that in *all* of the fstabs for each installed OS.


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