żwhich one is the best partition architecture?

Forum: HD Install
Topic: żwhich one is the best partition architecture?
started by: soberon

Posted by soberon on Nov. 22 2005,14:42

First let me expres my warmer congratulation and admiration to creators of DSL... it is a real jewell !!. After test others small distros trying to wake up my old love (Toshiba Satellite 220 80 Mb RAM 1.4 Gb HD, originally with Windows95) DSL WORKS 100% FINE!!!!. Installation was easy and clean and my oldy works better than new; USB (never works before with W95) PCMCIA cards, etc.. :laugh:

I just have a question (maybe stupid)... before install, I made 2 partitions (with cfdisk): hda1 1.2 Gb(ext2) and hda2 .2 Gb(linux-swap), but installation script do not request a swap, so I am not sure about if these architecture is right or if I am doing an unuseful thing

Your advices will be very appreciated

Posted by Your Fuzzy God on Nov. 22 2005,16:44

With only 80Mb of RAM you made a good choice using a swap partition. DSL should recognize this swap partition automatically. If DSL does not recognize it then you need to make sure that the partition is formatted and setup correctly.

mkswap /dev/hda2
swapon /dev/hda2

Good Luck,

Posted by soberon on Nov. 22 2005,21:21

Quote (Your Fuzzy God @ Nov. 22 2005,11:44)

Thanks a lot to Your Fuzzy God!!!
So, in console I will run the adviced commands... right?
And, if everything is OK, how can I confirm that?
Thanks again

Posted by Your Fuzzy God on Nov. 22 2005,21:41

You can start the LiveCD and it should recognize the swap partition.

Posted by soberon on Nov. 23 2005,00:22

Your Fuzzy God... thank you very much!!!
I just put into prectice your advice and ĄPRESTO! ... swap appears in the small control panel at the left inferior corner of the screen.
Best regards :laugh:

Posted by green on Nov. 23 2005,02:04

Another one who took the blue pill.