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-diskwith theSWAP_SIZEenvironment 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')
- If you run
- Ktprograms (talk) 08:06, 9 December 2021 (UTC)