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Posted: Oct. 24 2006,22:33 QUOTE
i found dsl while venturing into the linux world (xubuntu was a no no on this old toshiba 320cdt)
i am so impressed with ease of use and i adore fluxbox after only ever seeing the windows desktop.

i'm running the live cd with 96mb ram and have read that a swapfile will improve performance,

so can i set up a dos swapfile and still keep win98me (i mnt the hard drive for my files)?

i have searched and cant find enough info. :(
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Posted: Oct. 25 2006,01:45 QUOTE
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so can i set up a dos swapfile and still keep win98me (i mnt the hard drive for my files)?


Something like this?

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mount -t vfat /dev/hdb5 /mnt/hdb5
mkswap /mnt/hdb5/win386.swp
swapon /mnt/hdb5/win386.swp
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Posted: Oct. 25 2006,08:20 QUOTE
thanks, i'll give it a go, if win98 gets wrecked, its no big loss really.

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Posted: Oct. 25 2006,15:08 QUOTE
the code from the above post didnt seem to work, so i tried setting it up from the menu.
i now have a knoppix swap file on the win98 hda1, but its not being used. do i have to activate in some way, or have i not done it properly?
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Posted: Oct. 25 2006,15:50 QUOTE
If swapon was successful, the system should now know the swapfile is there.  It won't use it until needed, but you can check your system stats (like torsmo)
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