diff --git a/chrootInstall.sh b/chrootInstall.sh
index bf19e87..ea6c191 100755
--- a/chrootInstall.sh
+++ b/chrootInstall.sh
@@ -13,6 +13,7 @@ username="$(< /tempfiles/username)"
 userpassword="$(< /tempfiles/userpassword)"
 rootpassword="$(< /tempfiles/rootpassword)"
 timezone="$(< /tempfiles/timezone)"
+swap="$(< /tempfiles/swap)"
 
 # configuring locale and clock Settings
 echo 'en_US.UTF-8 UTF-8' > /etc/locale.gen
@@ -188,6 +189,11 @@ touch /home/"$username"/.ssh/authorized_keys
 chown -R "$username" /home/"$username"/.ssh
 
 # misc configuration
+if [ "$swap" -gt 0 ]; then
+    echo 'vm.swappiness=10' > /etc/sysctl.d/99-swappiness.conf
+else
+    echo 'vm.swappiness=0' > /etc/sysctl.d/99-swappiness.conf
+fi
 echo -e ""$username"        soft    memlock        64\n"$username"        hard    memlock        2097152\n"$username"        hard    nofile        524288\n# End of file" > /etc/security/limits.conf  # increase memlock and add support for esync
 mkdir -p /home/"$username"/.gnupg
 echo 'pinentry-program /usr/bin/pinentry-tty' > /home/"$username"/.gnupg/gpg-agent.conf  # forces gpg prompts to use terminal input
diff --git a/install.sh b/install.sh
index 9bf768b..4f5a7da 100755
--- a/install.sh
+++ b/install.sh
@@ -147,14 +147,11 @@ else
 fi
 
 # create and mount swap file
-if [ "$swap" != 0 ]; then
+if [ "$swap" -gt 0 ]; then
     dd if=/dev/zero of=/mnt/swapfile bs=1G count="$swap" status=progress
     chmod 600 /mnt/swapfile
     mkswap /mnt/swapfile
     swapon /mnt/swapfile
-    echo 'vm.swappiness=10' > /mnt/etc/sysctl.d/99-swappiness.conf
-else
-    echo 'vm.swappiness=0' > /mnt/etc/sysctl.d/99-swappiness.conf
 fi
 
 fstabgen -U /mnt >> /mnt/etc/fstab
@@ -183,6 +180,7 @@ echo "$username" > /mnt/tempfiles/username
 echo "$userpassword" > /mnt/tempfiles/userpassword
 echo "$rootpassword" > /mnt/tempfiles/rootpassword
 echo "$timezone" > /mnt/tempfiles/timezone
+echo "$swap" > /mnt/tempfiles/swap
 
 # download and initiate part 2
 curl https://raw.githubusercontent.com/rwinkhart/artix-install-script/main/chrootInstall.sh -o /mnt/chrootInstall.sh