DH install tricks
Forum: HD Install
Topic: DH install tricks
started by: easuter
Posted by easuter on June 24 2006,09:48
hi!i'm new here and have just tried DSL, and i'm very impressed!
i'm using a cd to run it on my old pentium 200mhz, but i have also partitioned my hard drive to make a HD-install. one partion has 2GB and is ext3 formated, and i kept 128mb for swap.
after doing a HD-install will DSL use the swap space and act as a regular linux distro, in which i will be able to customize the scripts and install packages?
also, i'm planning on turning that old computer into o home file-server, so will dsl once installed on the hard-drive be able to to that?
thanks in advance!
Posted by Trog Dog on June 25 2006,10:04
you will need to activate your swap partition with mkswap /dev/whateverswapon /dev/whatever
where whatever is the swap partition ie hda1 etc
Posted by brianw on July 01 2006,18:41
I always do HD installs and I have never had to do swapon (may have to with frugal but not with a regulat HD install).I have two windows machines (wifes and kids) and I transfer files using my DSL machine but I haven't done a file server. I have played around with Xterminal a little and got that working some. Setting up a file server with DSL should be pretty simple. What type of setup are you thinking about? What types of machines will you be serving?
Posted by brianw on July 05 2006,00:12
Correction, the reason I never had to worry about setting up a swap is because I have had linux installed on my laptop (in some version or another) for quite some time. I have had a swap partition for (it seems like) every so I never had to worry about it. I just wiped out everything and made some changes recently so I had to set up swap again. With a regular HD install I created the swap partition and used sudo mkswap then sudo swapon (to get it to work before a reboot) to start things off then on reboots everything worked the way it should.