Fingerbun
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Posts: 6
Joined: May 2006 |
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Posted: May 13 2006,21:57 |
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Hi, I am teaching myself something about Linux using DSL as a sandbox on an old first generation Pentium with 16MB RAM. I think DSL is a very impressive product.
I have got as far as a hard disk install, but I think there's something wrong with the swapping. Observed symptoms are:
* An error message at bootup "Swap area shorter than signature indicates"
* The dispay on top right of the screen always reports 0% swap usage
* The display on top right of machine reports file systems as 724M / 897M. I have partitioned as hda1=128M swapfile and hda2=955M bootable partition
* When I try to work the machine harder things start to fail. (EG opening the spreadsheet program, loading the Saturn jpg as wallpaper, etc). Symptoms of failure can include that the program I try to run doesn't start, or that the machine hangs, or the gui exits and throws me to text mode. This consistently occurs sooner in Fluxbox than in JWM.
Any suggestions on what's going on and how to get over it?
Adam
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