Recovering from a total lock-up?
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Topic: Recovering from a total lock-up?
started by: timmoore46
Posted by timmoore46 on Feb. 09 2006,18:21
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
Posted by cbagger01 on Feb. 09 2006,18:48
Create a decent-sized DOS swap file or Linux swap partition.
Posted by timmoore46 on Feb. 10 2006,09:03
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
Posted by sheldonisaac on Feb. 10 2006,14:25
> swapon /mnt/hda5/knoppix.swpThanks, I'll try that.
With this line:
swapon /mnt/hdb5/WIN386.SWP
Posted by timmoore46 on Feb. 12 2006,14:48
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