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Posted: Oct. 18 2004,23:04 QUOTE

actually, the idea of a DSL fan site really scares me .O_o

other than that , looks great.

-J.P.

EDITUS:

Q) My computer won't boot from the cdrom/usb!! Is there a boot floppy?

A) Yes, the boot floppy for the current series of DSL can be forund on any of the download mirrors in the "Current" directory. boot-X.X.X.img is for booting from a cd, and boot-usb.X.X.X.img is for booting from a usb pendrive device.

In linux, you can create a boot floppy by typing
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dd if=boot-X.X.X.img of=/dev/fd0

As far as windows, may I suggest John Newbigin's RawWrite for Windows. It's a lot easier to use than the original command-line based rawrite2.exe.

Q) Will DSL ever get bigger than 50mb?

A) NO! Now stop asking. John has said repeatedly that the 50mb ceiling will NEVER be broken. Sheesh.

Q) I did an HD install, and it runs slow, I have enough room for a swap partition, how do I make one?

A) Simple.
1. Open an root Xterm and type "cfdisk /dev/hdX" where "X" is the letter of your hard disk.
2. Select the free space and create a new primary partition. I recommend at least 32 mb, but if you have the room, 64 mb is better.
3. Next, select the "type" button and change the type to "82", which is Linux Swap.
4. Write the partition table to the disk, remember the partition name (I.E. hda1), and quit cfdisk.
5. Now type "mkswap /dev/hdXx" where "X" is the letter of the drive, and "x" is the number of the partition you just created.
6. Reboot.
7. Ta-da, you have a swap partition!
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Thanks to ke4nt1 for kicking me about forgetting the mkswap part...


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Posted: Oct. 19 2004,01:13 QUOTE

Note: addendum:

Having a "type 82" partition does not a useable swap partition make....
Running "mkswap /dev/hd??" will prepare the space for use ..

...and AwPhuch's post was detailing making a "swap FILE" ,
which is a different animal from a "swap PARTITION"

They accomplish the same thing , provide swap.
The swapfile can be made on an already existing formatted partition..

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Posted: Oct. 19 2004,02:17 QUOTE

Tomorrow I am going to start the task of creating the version of the FAQ that will maybe (hopefuly if we can trim somethings) to ship with DSL's next release...maybe we could make it a MyDSL file intill then.
What I plan on doing is making it an html file so that everything is neatly organized. We'll have the How-to's, the FAQ's, the documentation, ect. I'll try to keep the whole thing under 1mb but who knows!  Feel free to share your ideas and comments.

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Posted: Oct. 19 2004,04:39 QUOTE

O_o Umm, it's really not anywhere near done yet.

Besides, this FAQ wasn't really intended to be for the CD.

Hold off on putting anything together for a bit, untill we get some more stuff added in.

ke4nt1: Didn't know there was such a thing as a swapfile. thats cool. And I just forgot the mkswap part. :P  I'll edit it in real fast.

-J.P.


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Posted: Oct. 19 2004,12:14 QUOTE

If ke4nt doesn't mind, the mydsl idea might be good. It would allow everyone to view the documentation for comments and would also allow people to 'take it with them'. It could be a MyDSL living document (updated frequently).

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