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Posted: Jan. 31 2006,13:50

Thanks i'll give that a try with 2.2rc1

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Posted: Jan. 31 2006,17:21

figured out the issue... ram was not properly seated... thanks for all the help!

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Posted: Jan. 31 2006,17:22

Make your swap partition about 256MB. Normally you want it to be double the size of your RAM, but you don't have much RAM. 256MB is a little bigger than DSL when it's fully unpacked, so that gives some working space.

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Posted: Jan. 31 2006,20:30

do i need this even for a HD install?

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Posted: Jan. 31 2006,20:39

You don't necessarily need it to make DSL work from what I've seen, however, it does make things work more smoothly by acting like a bit of extra memory for those larger programs to use. Some of the GTK2 stuff, for example, won't even run on my computer with 64MB of RAM without the swap file. I guess it depends on how you are going to use DSL.

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