mikshaw
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Posted: Mar. 05 2006,16:52 |
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using the swapon command without parameters, as far as i know, should use whatever swap partition it finds. It's been a while, so i'm not sure.
If you edit grub's menu.lst (should be in the boot directory on the 300mb partition), adding "home=hda7" to the kernel line, it should create a dsl directory automatically the first time you boot with that parameter. You can test this out without editing menu.lst by editing the line displayed while grub is on the screen during boot. Select the system you want to boot, press "e" to edit, select the kernel line (probably the first line) and press "e" again to edit that line. Add "home=hda7" somewhere after "dsl", press Enter, and then press "b" to boot with your modified kernel line. Pressing Enter might not be necessary...i don't rememeber at the moment.
If this is successful, you should be able to access your home through both /ramdisk/home/dsl and /mnt/hda7/home/dsl
Afterward, if you want to keep this persistent home, you will need to edit menu.lst to make it permanent.
If you want to use backup/restore as well as a persistent home, it would probably be useful to remove "home/dsl" from .filetool.lst to prevent backing up unnecessary files.
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