On Thu, Apr 20, 2006 at 04:19:40PM -0400, Tylerious wrote: > I've tried both those distributions, actually. However, I spent at > least three days straight compiling my current Gentoo system. A pain, > but everything just works (except stuff like this, naturally). I may > have to give up and go back to something else. Or maybe plug in a > large flash drive and mount it as swap.
I wouldn't use a flash drive as swap - it'll cause a lot of wear to the device causing it to fail earlier... If you have spare disk space then you can use a swap file (rather than a swap partion). Commands are something like: --- dd if=/dev/zero of=large_swap_file bs=1M count=1024 # gives 1GiByte mkswap large_swap_file swapon large_swap_file --- and after the compile --- swapoff large_swap_file rm large_swap_file --- Have fun, Simon. _______________________________________________ GnomeMeeting-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnomemeeting-list
