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Re: Installer trases UUID of swap - was [Re: Change of UUID?]

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On 1/6/2017 10:44 AM, David Wright wrote:
> On Fri 06 Jan 2017 at 09:45:28 (-0600), Richard Owlett wrote:
>> On 9/23/2016 11:52 AM, Felix Miata wrote:
>>> [snip]
>>>
>>> The Debian installer reformats an existing swap, which means it
>>> gets a new UUID, unless you go out of your way to prevent it from
>>> doing so.
>>>
>>
>> I wish to go out of my way, so to speak.
>> Can you point me to "the road less traveled"?
>> My environment is a laptop dedicated to installing various
>> configurations of Jessie. It is extremely annoying that only the
>> last installed {and *most likely* to be removed} boots promptly -
>> the other installs having problems with finding an invalid UUID. I
>> gets worse as I occasionally install a system and its intended swap
>> partition to a flash drive - effectively clobbering all installs on
>> the laptop.
>> TIA
>
> If all you use this laptop for is installing jessie, is it
> necessary for you to have any swap available? Would that be
> something worth knowing?
>

Until doing an install to test Darac's suggestion, I haven't done 
an install since before Christmas. I admit that stability sets 
some sort of record for me ;) In general I doubt that I've 
actually have needed swap space.

I expect to go live on my Debian box very soon. I may make it 
before my Windows box has hardware failure.

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Change of UUID? Hans <hans.ullrich@loop.de> - 2016-09-23 17:50 +0200
  Re: Change of UUID? Felix Miata <mrmazda@earthlink.net> - 2016-09-23 19:00 +0200
    Re: Change of UUID? Hans <hans.ullrich@loop.de> - 2016-09-23 19:20 +0200
      Re: Change of UUID? Felix Miata <mrmazda@earthlink.net> - 2016-09-23 19:40 +0200
    Installer trases UUID of swap - was [Re: Change of UUID?] Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2017-01-06 16:50 +0100
      Re: Installer trases UUID of swap - was [Re: Change of UUID?] Darac Marjal <mailinglist@darac.org.uk> - 2017-01-06 17:30 +0100
        Re: Installer trases UUID of swap - was [Re: Change of UUID?] David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2017-01-06 17:50 +0100
          Re: Installer trases UUID of swap - was [Re: Change of UUID?] Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2017-01-06 19:00 +0100
            Re: Installer trases UUID of swap - was [Re: Change of UUID?] Felix Miata <mrmazda@earthlink.net> - 2017-01-06 20:20 +0100
              Re: Installer trases UUID of swap - was [Re: Change of UUID?] Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2017-01-07 11:10 +0100
            Re: Installer trases UUID of swap - was [Re: Change of UUID?] David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2017-01-06 22:50 +0100
              Re: Installer trases UUID of swap - was [Re: Change of UUID?] Keith Bainbridge <keithrbaugroups@gmail.com> - 2017-01-06 23:20 +0100
              Re: Installer trases UUID of swap - was [Re: Change of UUID?] Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2017-01-07 11:10 +0100
        Re: Installer trases UUID of swap - was [Re: Change of UUID?] Jonathan Dowland <jmtd@debian.org> - 2017-01-06 18:20 +0100
        Re: Installer trases UUID of swap - was [Re: Change of UUID?] Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2017-01-06 19:00 +0100
        Re: Installer trases UUID of swap - was [Re: Change of UUID?] Felix Miata <mrmazda@earthlink.net> - 2017-01-06 20:20 +0100
      Re: Installer trases UUID of swap - was [Re: Change of UUID?] David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2017-01-06 17:50 +0100
        Re: Installer trases UUID of swap - was [Re: Change of UUID?] Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2017-01-06 19:30 +0100

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