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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