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Posted: July 31 2005,01:55 QUOTE
I am using cfdisk on my dsl cd to clear partitions previously created by Fedora Core 2 on my computer (I want to get rid of FC2 and do a hd intall of dsl). I have created a primary partition, hda1, using all my hd space (3g). Now the prompt says to toggle the bootable flag of current partition.  Do I want this partition to be bootable? (very newbie here!)

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Posted: July 31 2005,02:02 QUOTE
If I understand correctly, this is what you are doing.

You want to completely remove everything from your hard disk and install only DSL. If this is correct you will need a bootable partition and this is your only partition, so yes you need to make it bootable. You may want to consider a swap partition, especially if you don't have a lot of RAM.

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Posted: July 31 2005,02:19 QUOTE
I don't think I need a swap partition - I have plenty of ram, having just added another 128 MB.  Is there a way to tell on dsl, the total amt of ram?  I upgraded it a few years ago, and can't remember how much I put on it that time.

Sina

and thanks for your answer on the bootable partition
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Posted: July 31 2005,02:35 QUOTE
The "free" command should tell you how much ram you have, and how much is in use/cached

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