pattmark
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Posted: Nov. 03 2006,06:56 |
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I finally make the DOS swapfile work, from livecd. 
you need a hard disk with a dos partition, a partition with win98 should be fine.
these was wath i do, step by step, maybe some step dont be needed or i do redundant things, dont know, im not an expert, but this work for me.
1. in the desktop, rigth-bottom, the box, click the device (cdrom,hda1,fd0,etc) until the one with the DOS partition, should be red unmounted, click to mount and change to green, if pop up advice "mount: you must especify the fylesystem type" you forgot format the partition, do it from windows or dos, if already green skip this step.
2. from menu (rigth click on desktop), menu System select "Setup DOS Swapfile", if advice "sorry, no dos partition available to swapfile", either you have already created one, or the dos partition wasnt mounted rigth(see 1 step), if all ok should be asking you a question select yes to accept, then select the size of the file, ok, shoul take a minute to create the file
3. use emelfm to confirm the exact path of the file, should be /mnt/hdaX/knoppix.swp, where X is the number of the dos partition, should be the same you mounted in step 1
4. open ATerminal and type "sudo swapon" + the path, should be something like this,
sudo swapon /mnt/hda1/knoppix.swp
5. if all ok, you should see the inmediate change in Swap used, on desktop below CPU and RAM usage
Hope this help anyone, take me 7 days and my win98 partition, i know i wasnt the only one trying to make this DOS swapfile work, agree mrs peanut?
i search and ask for help without result, i wish i could read this a week ago, so now, i wish this save u a week. 
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