> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Dennis Myers
> Sent: Sunday, February 04, 2001 2:43 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: [newbie] Swap file on two hard drives?
>
>
> Hi all, after two days of shear frustration I am back on
> line. So after a
> major problem with the WD hard drive, not wanting to take an
> upgrade and
> files corrupted etc....etc.... I discovered that the silly
> thing will take a
> complete format and reinstall of 7.2 In the process it saw
> an old version on
> the hdc and formatted the swap on that disk. so it sees swap
> as hda5 and
> hdc5. My question is, if I do an install of 7.2 on the hdc
> drive and reformat
> the whole thing will that mess up the linux installation on
> the hda drive
> since it may not be able to see the swap in the same place on
> the hdc drive?
> I want to do this because the hdc install will be my test bed
> to try things
> while hda will be my hopefully stable version for security
> and connection to
> internet etc. Any help will be appreciated.
> --
Dennis
When you create your new partitions on hdc if the your swap is
numerically in the same position, i.e. hdc2 before and hdc2 after, 7.2 on
hda will have no problems finding it.
BTW you can run 7.2 without a swap partition. How well it runs will depend
on the amount of phyical Ram you system has. I ended up running Mandrake
several weeks in this manner and saw no detriment in performance.
Charles (-:
Forever never goes beyond tomorrow.
