Anaconda Installer: Use of swap space on a multi-drive, multiboot system

Wed Oct 15 20:05:00 UTC 2003

On Wed, 15 Oct 2003, Tom Diehl wrote:

> Well let me play devil's advocate and ask what are the downsides to having
> it use/format a "linux swap partition" on another drive. Is there some other
> potential use for it??

Solaris/x86 partitions are type 0x82, same as Linux swap.

Arguably, RH automatically overwriting those is a feature, not a bug, though 
;-)

later,
chris