On 09/17/14, bcw142 said the following...   
       
    bc>   Re: ArchLinux   
    bc>   By: Gryphon to Access Denied on Sat Aug 23 2014 21:05:00   
    bc>    
    bc>  > My only attempt at installing Arch Linux was on my Pi.  It seemed to in   
    bc>  > great, but then *after* the install it wanted to configure the swap spa   
    bc>  > But there was no more space on the drive to add it, because it was all    
    bc>  > during the install.  Is that a problem that is specific to the Pi insta   
    bc>  > Can it be worked into the initial installation, so that I don't have to   
    bc>  > configure swap after the fact?   
    bc> Something is odd there, swap was no problem and I had installed Arch on   
    bc> two SD cards when I was frist using my Pi. I do find it odd they use SD   
    bc> space for swap, but they do with that weird /dev/mmcblk0pX stuff where X   
    bc> is 1-9, hmm my current swap doesn't show up that way with Raspbian, but   
    bc> it is only 102396. Was that on 4G, 8G, 16G, 32G? The current normal is   
    bc> 8G and it's enough for quite a bit. I just setup a B+ with 3T USB drive   
    bc> (MyBook). If you have hard drive space you can make a small swap   
    bc> partition with gparted or the like and use swapon and swapoff in the   
    bc> scripts to use it. I often do that by hand on my USB Stick installs as   
    bc> it depends on the system I boot with them and swap isn't used much   
    bc> except for web broswers.   
      
   Migrating to a different OS is on my plate of things to do, not just for the   
   Pi, but for my BBS machine.  I'm going to try to resintstall Arch on the Pi   
   and see if I can catach any issues like this on my 2nd time around.  I have an   
   8GB card, so there's plenty of room.   
      
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