[sf-lug] installs & swap: Re: SF-LUG meeting notes

[Michael Paoli]

Yes, swap can make a difference when installing,
notably including installs where memory is fairly tight
relative to required/recommended for install.

Ran into that a few years back helping someone with their
*buntu install at BerkeleyLUG,
see also:
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!searchin/berkeleylug/swap|sort:date/berkeleylug/cp3wltPg5To/7j-5c2IrAgAJ
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!searchin/berkeleylug/swap|sort:date/berkeleylug/5zs7NYkw534/I0o0jRzXAwAJ


> From: aaronco36 <aaronco36 at SDF.ORG>
> Subject: Re: [sf-lug] SF-LUG meeting notes
> Date: Tue, 7 Jan 2020 20:25:05 +0000 (UTC)

> (Forwarded message from Ken Shaffer <kenshaffer80 at gmail.com>)
>
> At the meeting, Jim and I had problems getting Antix 19 (x64)  
> installer to run on an Intel Compute Stick (ICS). It would run for a  
> bit then hang up. The clue was when booting Antix 19 off a micro SD,  
> the "free" command indicated that swap size was 0. Finishing the  
> install at home, I just plugged in a USB with a 2G swap partition,  
> and the installer ran just fine. But wait, now there were two swap  
> partitions, there was one on the ICS internal memory that wasn't  
> picked up before! The ICS' swap UUID was the one used in a previous  
> install on the ICS' /etc/fstab for swap, so no idea why it wasn't  
> seen. A reboot of the install without the USB swap now picked up the  
> ICS swap, and so I ran the install (in about 10-15 minutes). No idea  
> how a USB swap fixed the problem with the swap partiion on the ICS,  
> but things run just fine now.
> Ken
>
>
> On 1/6/20, aaronco36 <aaronco36 at sdf.org> wrote:
>> Bobbie Sellers <bliss-sf4ever at dslextreme.com> wrote in [1]
>>> Aaron showed up with his 32 bit Dell laptop.
>> ..
>>> AntiX-19.1 is also a quick booter and i even
>>> managed to get the WiFi working.  Maybe some
>>> background changes but it is fast and light.
>>
>> That "32 bit Dell laptop" is a Latitude D620 with 4GB of RAM of which
>> ~3.4GB is usable. It also has AntiX-19.1 installed (32 bit Full version),
>> and is currently the host OS for the *non*-systemd version 9.0 of Linux
>> From Scratch [2].
>>
>>
>> Bobbie Sellers <bliss-sf4ever at dslextreme.com> also wrote in [1]
>>> At one point a friend of Aaron's visited us and had questions
>>> about the use of certain network matters and Jim answered his
>>> questions thoroughly.
>>
>> IIRC, David G instead had several questions relating to a startup
>> partnership he is initiating.
>> Jim S is entirely welcome to correct this if I'm badly mistaken, but David
>> G's conceived product is apparently (from what I could glean from him and
>> Jim) a JSON[3]<--->databases app primarily designed for various MS
>> Windows-related (e.g., MS Excel) API's.
>> As such, the app doesn't seem to extensively involve Free/Open Source
>> Software at the current time.
>>
>> During his brief discussion with David G, Jim did bring up
>> Representational State Transfer (REST) [4][5], which was a new and
>> interesting concept for me :-)
>>
>> -A
>>
>>
>> ====================================
>> References
>> ====================================
>> [1]http://linuxmafia.com/pipermail/sf-lug/2020q1/014497.html
>> [2]http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/downloads/
>> [3]https://www.json.org/json-en.html
>> [4]https://api2cart.com/api-technology/rest-dummies-short-intro-representational-state-transfer/
>> [5]https://stackoverflow.com/questions/10418105/what-does-representational-state-mean-in-rest
>> ====================================
>>
>> aaronco36 at sdf.org