On Tue, 30 Nov 1999, Charles Curley wrote:
> I have been running Red Hat 5.2 for over a year now. I have just put
> Mandrake 6.1 on the same system. However, RH 6.0 was a disaster, so this
> time I took things carefully: I installed M 6.1 in its own boot and root
> partions. BUT I have them both sharing the same swap space. That may have
> been an error. I get this error message from dmesg, and no swap partition.
Um, you've forgotten to send the error?
> 1) Is there any way to allow the two installations to share the same swap
> space?
>
> 2) Failing that, is there anything short of re-installing with a new swap
> partition I can do? Such as: back up the Mandrake root and boot
> partitions, twiddle the partitions, restore the partitions, re-run LILO?
>
> Thank you.
Worst comes to worst you can fiddle with the rc.sysinit and have it
reformat the swap on each boot, but i wasn't aware the format changed.
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