User Feedback :: newbie notes

FYI,

Usually people who are running DSL on an old computer with only 32 MB of RAM have an existing DOS, Windows 95 or Windows 98 installation.

For these typical users, the "safe" way to speed up DSL livecd with swap space but without repartitioning their hard drive is to "Create DOS swapfile".

This will create a swapfile on the existing DOS/Win95/Win98 partition called something like "knoppix.swp".

Since no changes are made to the hard drive configuration, the only extra step needed to completely "undo" the changes is to delete the knoppix.swp file on their "C:\" drive after they reboot into DOS/Windows.

Just my $0.02

Of course if the user has reached the point where they actually want to permanently install DSL, a full hard disk install + linux swap partition is ideal for the user with only 32MB of RAM.

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