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Posted: Aug. 19 2004,10:10 QUOTE
yep use cfdisk to make a 128mb linux partition (primary) reboot
open a terminal  check new partition is there and remember name
open new terminal mkswap -name of new partition (eg /dev/hda2)
swapon -a reboot
dsl should then mount your swap on reboot........
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Posted: Aug. 19 2004,12:05 QUOTE
He meant to say: make a 128MB linux SWAP partition.

The linux swap partition is a different partition type than a regular linux partition.
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