first time linux or noob needs help)

Forum: HD Install
Topic: first time linux or noob needs help)
started by: Shadow_Fi

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Posted by Shadow_Fi on June 05 2006,12:43

So, as you can see from the topic, this is my first time using linux, so if you try to explain something, try to do that in the moste simpe way. So, i have slow machine, With 128+64RAM, two 81mb HDD, 333mHz AMD, and some stupid s3 video card. I installed the image on hdd using Grub install. But machine is damn slow, and no swap using. I dont know, how to get that swap working (still have second HDD empty). Second problem, is how to set refresh rate to 85Hz on 800x600?.... I shall talk more simpe.. What can i do with this machine to make it run on MAXIMUM perfomance for internet browsing. Thanks for your attention.

p.s sorry for bad english, coz my native language is russian.

Best regards, Shadow_Fi.

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Posted by cbagger01 on June 05 2006,17:22

For swap, you need to use cfdisk to create a Linux Swap partition.
Then as user root (super user), you can format your partition:

sudo su
mkswap /dev/hdb1      (Where "hdb1" should be replaced with the location of your swap partition)
swapon

For higher refresh rates, install the XFree86.dsl extension from the MyDSL repository and manually configure it for your video card and monitor.

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