At 07:35 02/08/2002 -0400, you wrote: >I dont see a partition for swap space which is needed by linux to work. >I think you should use 2 times the ammount of ram you have. Allthough you >have 1 gig of ram and 2 gigs of swap may be WAY too much. Chime in on this >one guys, im fuzzy. Is it 2x your ram PERIOD. or what...
A long distant time ago, the rull of thumb was swap=2*ram. But that was on the big systems with 256K main memory and 18Mb st-506 drives...... These days I just put a 512Mb swap partition knowing I can always add swapfiles later if it should prove necessary (it hasn't yet) >By the way, look into why making seperate partitions is better then just >trying to use as few as possible. Bare minimum is /boot / and swap.. >but making seperate ones for things such as /tmp /home and some others >have some benifits.. Certainly - I always make /home separate then I keep all the users personal stuff/desktop settings/application setups are retained across re-installs (as long as you don't format it of course).Nice to have /usr/local separate to retain any third part (i.e non-rpm) stuff that you load and /var should be separate so that log files and mail spools don't fill the root filesystem. >Jim. > > > Hi All, > > I tried installing RH 7.3 on my machine > > Configuration as follows : - > > Pentium IV 2.2 Ghz > > 120 GB HDD > > 1GB DDRAM > > > > But after doing all the partitions and selecting the packages when the > > installer begins to install It suddenly gives me an error "Unable to > > re-read partition from /tmp/hda Try rebooting your machine" My partition > > tables is as follows. > > > > /boot 30mb > > / 17 GB > > and rest of the disk is raw. > > > > But after many tries i installed RH 7.2 and I did the same way as of RH > > 7.3 and everything went fine. > > Has anybody faced any such problem. Can anybody tell me the reason why > > this error occurs. > > > > Thanks in advance > > > > Regards > > > > Rahul > > > > > > > >-- >redhat-list mailing list >Unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe >https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list -- redhat-list mailing list Unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
