Search Members Help

» Welcome Guest
[ Log In :: Register ]

Mini-ITX Boards Sale, Fanless BareBones Mini-ITX, Bootable 1G DSL USBs, 533MHz Fanless PC <-- SALE $200 each!
Get The Official Damn Small Linux Book. DSL Market , Great VPS hosting provided by Tektonic
Pages: (2) </ [1] 2 >/

[ Track this topic :: Email this topic :: Print this topic ]

 reply to topic new topic new poll
Topic: Got dsl to work but..., Only 32mb RAM< Next Oldest | Next Newest >
chaud Offline





Group: Members
Posts: 2
Joined: Jan. 2005
Posted: Jan. 17 2005,23:39 QUOTE
I have the laptop working decent, but the thing only has 32mb ram.  Is there a way I can create a swap partition on the usb key so that I can open firefox?
Back to top
Profile PM 
Mechcozmo Offline





Group: Members
Posts: 33
Joined: Sep. 2004
Posted: Jan. 19 2005,00:45 QUOTE
Flash-based devices (aka, USB flash drives) have a limited number of reads/writes per sector before they fail.  Hard drives do not suffer from this.  You would be better of making a swapfile on the hard disk, so that you do not damage the USB drive.
Back to top
Profile PM 
CHAUD
Unregistered
Posted: Jan. 20 2005,04:07 QUOTE
Good point, only problem is the hard drive is riddleled with bad sectors, seems to be dieing, how would I go about TRYING to make a swapfile on the HD.
Back to top
Mechcozmo Offline





Group: Members
Posts: 33
Joined: Sep. 2004
Posted: Jan. 21 2005,00:35 QUOTE
There is a "Setup DOS swapfile" command.  I don't know what it does.... But a swapfile is a swapfile....
Try it?
(I'd try it for you, but I care about my hard drive :p )
Back to top
Profile PM 
mikshaw Offline





Group: Members
Posts: 4856
Joined: July 2004
Posted: Jan. 21 2005,03:12 QUOTE
I wouldn't say a swapfile is a swapfile...and a swapfile is also not a swap partition.  You'd get much better results creating a small linux swap partition on a harddrive rather than using a swapfile on a fat partition.

--------------
http://www.tldp.org/LDP/intro-linux/html/index.html
Back to top
Profile PM WEB 
7 replies since Jan. 17 2005,23:39 < Next Oldest | Next Newest >

[ Track this topic :: Email this topic :: Print this topic ]

Pages: (2) </ [1] 2 >/ 		reply to topic new topic new poll
Quick Reply: Got dsl to work but...

Do you wish to enable your signature for this post?
Do you wish to enable emoticons for this post?
Track this topic
View All Emoticons
View iB Code