No you shouldn't need swap, but it's possible the installer won't let
you proceed without it. The spare partition won't be picked up as swap
unless it's flagged by fdisk/diskdruid as a swap partition (type 82).
I've run into swap on machines with >192MB of swap before, FWIW, though
of course not on the install.
If that's not it then I'm worthless, lack of / and swap are the only
things that have produced this situation on machines that I've set up.
Jerry Human wrote:
>
> "Michael R. Jinks" wrote:
> >
> > The Next button won't work if you haven't configured enough partitions
> > with proper mount points. Chances are you filled out something wrong in
> > diskdruid.
>
> That's what I thought, that's why I tried several times before doing
> anything else. The 6.2 and 7.0 installers are practically identical and
> I've installed 6.2 several times in various locations without running
> into this problem.
>
> > First of all, as I read your post you set the disk device as the mount
> > point; this isn't right. I may be reading incorrectly but the mount
> > point should be / if you're only going to have one partition. Use the
> > pull-down menu in the graphical install tool, it has a list of possible
> > mount points, or just enter "/" in the "mount point" field.
>
> I may have mistated but the first time through I clicked the entry box
> and hit the "/" on the keyboard. On subsequent tries ( 6 or 8) I tried
> both the keyboard and pull down menues.
>
> >
> > Another possibility is that you haven't configured any swap space, but
> > if you had 6.2 installed already then the installer should see the swap
> > space from before and use that.
>
> Actually, (a) with 192 meg of ram on a workstation I shouldn't need
> swap, (b) RH isn't supposed to require swap, (C) a portion of the disk
> was unused and could have been used for swap but the installer didn't
> prompt for anything. It just wouldn't go any further.
>
> What else could it be?
>
> Thanks.
>
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