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Libby

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Posted: Mar. 16 2004,21:03

I'm a complete newbie, just to warn ya'll.

I installed DSL a while ago on a really nasty old computer. I made a swap partition beforehand, but when I did the installation I didn't do whatever you're supposed to get the computer to use the partition. I guess I must've skipped something, but this was about a month ago, so I can't remember. Now, my sister (it's her computer) tells me programs are crashing all over the place. That would be because of the memory, right? So I need to get the swap partition to work. How do I do that? Do I have to reinstall? If so, how do I do this right next time?

Modrak

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Posted: Mar. 16 2004,21:12

I hope you only made space(partion) for it in cfdisk and saved the partion table...so please do...

login as root an do "mkswap /dev/hdswap"
/dev/hdswap is the swapdrive...then reboot

Doriath
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Posted: Mar. 17 2004,00:09

And sometimes to activate swap you have to type "swapon -a"

Lee

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Posted: Mar. 17 2004,00:31

Erm, regarding this post, would I have to do this too?

I created a linux partition and linux swap on the one drive and just installed DSL using the guide and made lilo work.

I didn't get any errors and haven't done upto now (not used it much) but does it auto do this or will I need to do this too? (the above)