User Feedback :: Recovering from a total lock-up?

I've driven DSL down a hole it doesn't come back from several times.  Powering the PC off is very crude way out.  Is there a 'get-out' more elegant than pull the plug out?

Doing a backup to a usb pendrive, I've just removed does the trick as does opening too many Firefox windows! *LOL*




Tim

I found the DOS swap create utility in the 'system' menu! It didn't let me change hard disc and offered hda5 rather than hda1, but it seems to have worked!  (Also the floppy boot for usb!  )

Didn't show up on the summary of the system, top right of desktop, so I tried

swapon /mnt/hda5/knoppix.swp

and it all seemed to spring to life! (more *LOL*)

Before that I tried:-  (  *LOL* )



From the terminal

sudo su

cd /mnt/hda1

mkdir /swap

dd if=/dev/zero of=/mnt/hda1/swap bs=1024 count=65535

worked

swapon /swap plus variants came back with an error message about arguements..

Any ideas? ( now redundant )



Tim

In the end I found

swapon /mnt/hda5/knoppix.swp

worked fine for adding 64MB to the ram capabilty but trying to get it to load on start up defeated me.

I tried adding it to bootlocal.sh in the /opt/ directory

but that resulted in a loading error or even a failure to fully load.

Any ideas anyone?



Tim