Apps :: Beaver & SIAG not working properly
Swap refers to using a resource such as your hd as virtual memory.
I'd still recommend for you to use "lowram" bootcode if you haven't yet.
Using firefox is a bit of an overkill... once you get dillo working alright, you should try Opera instead.
I think an email program called Sylpheed is included.
First does the "Swap Used" show anything on the upper right of your screen?
If not this is how I would find my swap partition:
Boot DSL 2 or you might right click on the Atermial icon and do superuser
type fdisk /dev/hda <- yours could be sda, hdb etc..
hit p
if swap is there it should be type 82
note what it is if it's there ~ hda2 or hda1
hit q
type swapon /dev/hda2 <- for whatever you find
I remember the guy that helped me set this up used type 82 but I don't remember if it was on 1 or 2.
But I have been watching the commands fly by during startup and also noticed that swap was being used or at least recognised.
It did however just stop the boot sequence. I have the following notice...
"xauth: error in locking authority file /home/dsl/.Xauthority
xauth: error in locking authority file /home/dsl/.Xauthority
xauth: error in locking authority file /home/dsl/.Xauthority
xauth: error in locking authority file /home/dsl/.Xauthority
giving up.
xinit : Connection rerfused (errno 111): unable to connect to X server
xinit: No such process (errno 3): Server error.
xauth: error in locking authority file /home/dsl/.Xauthority
dsl@console[dsl]$"
I don't know squat about what is going on now, but it can't be good.
I was on a web site earlier that froze this up. I couldn't do anything with it so I turned it off.
Could it still be looking for the web connection?
Should this conversation be moved to another topic?
G'day Steve
This is happening because you didn't shutdown properly. At the dsl@console prompt type
This will start the file system tools like scandisk in windows, follow the prompts (if any) and then type
DSL should now boot properly.
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