From: Marvin L. Taylor (marvint@teal.csn.org)
Date: 05/09/93 

From: marvint@teal.csn.org (Marvin L. Taylor)
Subject: the Ultrastor 24F, partitions and swap.  
Date: Sun, 9 May 1993 17:27:27 GMT

Okay, given all the discussion on swap partition vs files, etc., I have a
couple of questions:

- Don't you generally need *at least* as much dedicated swap for a UNIX
  system as you have RAM (ie: 16MB RAM requires >= 16MB swap ALWAYS)?

- Assuming I want to install 48MB of swap for LINUX, this now requires
  3 partitions on the drive. Plus, 2 or three for LINUX itself and at
  least one for SCO, and maybe another one for OS/2. Does the FAQ
  (which I have, but can't seem to find today) address how to create
  more than partitions? If not, could someone enlighten me?

- Obviously, swap partitions are faster, but any idea how MUCH faster?

- And, does anyone have an idea of when UltraStor 24F support will be
  added to the SLS distribution? Is it actually possible, or does
  support for the 24F cause problems and require separate images?

- And finally, is there a place where I could get a consistent set of
  boot images and install files to use the 24F? I have the SLS 1.01
  (1.02?) distribution disks (all 30), but can't use fdisk....

Thanks in advance,
- Marvin Taylor <marvint@csn.org>

PS: Really, I'll probably create only one swap partition and use swap
  files for the rest...