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I have had some difficulty creating a bootable ESXi installation media on a USB disk in Windows(Kickstart scripts read by VMwares Weasel are not running properly), it works in Linux. The problem might have nothing to do with Syslinux, but I still want to ask a question regarding Syslinux to be sure there are variations as result of installing Syslinux to a USB drive in Windows vs Linux. In Linux

...n map/schema for a server OS where it's primary purpose is for a LAMP server, DNS (bind), and possibly gameservers 2) CentOS docs recommend using 10GB SWAP for 8GB of RAM. 1X the amount of physical memory + 2GB added. (Reference: http://www.centos.org/docs/5/html/Installation_Guide-en-US/s1-diskpartitioning-x86.html). I was told this is ridiculous and will severely slow down the system. Is this true? If so, what is a good swap space to use for 8GB of RAM? The university of MIT recommends making MULTIPLE 2GB swap spaces equaling 10GB if this is the case. Please help! 3) Is EXT4 better or worse to...

...n map/schema for a server OS where it's primary purpose is for a LAMP server, DNS (bind), and possibly gameservers 2) CentOS docs recommend using 10GB SWAP for 8GB of RAM. 1X the amount of physical memory + 2GB added. (Reference: http://www.centos.org/docs/5/html/Installation_Guide-en-US/s1-diskpartitioning-x86.html). I was told this is ridiculous and will severely slow down the system. Is this true? If so, what is a good swap space to use for 8GB of RAM? The university of MIT recommends making MULTIPLE 2GB swap spaces equaling 10GB if this is the case. Please help! 3) Is EXT4 better or worse to...