From: Lars Hecking lhecking@users.sourceforge.net
All machines kickstarted here consistently have a swap partition with the wrong size. According to the RHEL5 manual:
| To determine the size of the swap partition automatically, use the | --recommended option: | | swap --recommended | | The recommended maximum swap size for machines with less than 2GB of RAM is | twice the amount of RAM. For machines with 2GB or more, this recommendation | changes to 2GB plus the amount of RAM.
However, the swap partition on all kickstarted machines is 2GB, regardless of RAM size.
The installation guide says "between":
"If the system memory is between 128MB and 2GB, the size of the swap partition will be between the system memory size and twice the amount of system memory. For example, a system with 1GB of system memory will have a swap partition sized *** between 1GB and 2GB ***. If the system memory is higher than 2GB, the size of the swap partition will be a between 1GB and 2GB plus system memory. For example, a system with 4GB of system memory will have a swap partition sized *** between 1GB and 6GB ***."
You could always have a pre-script generate the 'correct' swap size (based on your own formula), put it in a file and include that file in the kickstart file...
JD