[svlug] Partitions for live CD install

[Skip Evans]

James Sparenberg wrote:
> On a note of strictly personal opinion.  But if running an install for a
> personal desktop I tend to use 2 partitions.  / and swap.   However a
> recent discovery on a system at a customer site.  (System wouldn't boot,
> they didn't know how to correctly recover 30 minutes and I'm outa
> there...)  We discovered that this system was running without swap.  (2G
> of ram)  and had been for 2 years.  The point is, IMHO the major
> partition you need is / and beyond that it's a matter of situation, not
> OS requirement.  
> 

So would running without swap postentially cause a 
  machine to not boot? I think that may be the 
situation I was looking at.

Skip