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At 06:14 PM 11/01/2000 -0800, you wrote:
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> Ed Tharp wrote:
>>
>> hey, I am really a newbie , but should not your swap be twice the size of
>> the ram?
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Brice Ruth" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>> Sent: Wednesday, November 01, 2000 4:19 PM
>> Subject: [newbie] Installing 7.2: swap problem
>>
>> > Greetings!
>> >
>> > Veteran Linux user here, tryin' out Mandrake Linux for the first time
...
>> >
>> > First off, I can't get through the install. Here's what happens:
>> >
>> > Everything goes along fine until we're in the stage where the hard drive
>> > gets partitioned. I have a 6G drive and I wanted to partition it
>> > manually ... so I do. 128M swap, 512M root, the rest goes to usr.
>> > Don't comment on how intelligent or stupid my partitioning scheme is,
>> > please - that shouldn't be at issue here :)
>> >
>> > The installer partitioning interface works fine, I click "done", it pops
>> > up a message about writing the partition table to disk "ok" and then I
>> > get the error ... some kind of incomplete sentence about swap. Here it
>> > is verbatim:
>> >
>> > An error occurred
>> > swap area needs to be.
>> >
>> > WTF? so I hit "OK" ... try again ... I've tried a million different
>> > things ... I've tried using ALT+F2 to get to the command line, used the
>> > fdisk on the CD to manually partition the drive, write out the
>> > partition, reboot the system ... no go.
>> >
>> > This isn't some crazy system ... fairly new, actually. AMD Athlon 700
>> > w/ 6G Seagate medalist pro drive, 128M ram, 66MHz UDMA capable, but I
>> > think the drive is actually a 33MHz ...
>> >
>> > Any help at all would be most sincerely appreciated!
>> >
>> > Regards,
>> > Brice Ruth
>> >
>> >
>
> Check your 'man swap' and you will find they say 128 MB. You can have up
> to 8 swap partitions (16 according to the LPI study guide).
> -- > Barry :-)> > Registered Linux User #183879</pre>> <font size=3>
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