Talk:Alpine and UEFI

lasted changes from Grayhatter said "are so bad" .. bad due i cited the true of tha all 8086 derived procesors have embebed 16bit compatibility?

manufeactures true?.. i like improvements but not "cutting" info.. so before me alpine wiki was a disorder poutdates pages.. seems this are the now crap of?

— Preceding unsigned comments added by Mckaygerhard (talk • contribs) 19:37, 18 October 2019

Minimum Alpine partition scheme

This section mentions that swap partition is needed... Is this true for the current alpine setup scripts? Can alpine be setup without swap? Or perhaps with a swap file instead? If the setup script allows no swap or swap file, the statement about swap partitions being mandatory should be removed. zcrayfish (talk) 01:30, 9 December 2021 (UTC)

My comments on this:

• If you run setup-disk with the SWAP_SIZE environment variable set to 0 (i.e. SWAP_SIZE=0 setup-disk), then the script won't create any swap.
• As far as I can tell, a swap partition isn't mandatory (for example I've set up a VM that uses the entire disk without partitioning, the VM software handles loading the kernel so there's no bootloader either).
• Also, it should be scheme instead of sheme (missing the 'c')

Ktprograms (talk) 08:06, 9 December 2021 (UTC)

Good catch, I didn't notice the other guy's typo. zcrayfish (talk) 00:05, 14 December 2021 (UTC)

I have mildly edited the section to address my concerns (and the typo), but boy this article is a trainwreck... It would probably be a good idea to eventually merge the three secttions: 'UEFI mandatory partition mechanics', 'Alpine disk layout for UEFI', 'Minimum Alpine partition scheme'... They're so redundant. zcrayfish (talk) 00:12, 14 December 2021 (UTC)