[newbie] Linux Swap Partition
Something Ive never actually looked at with regard to Linux. Is it possible to just not use a swap partition at all. The intended machine has 768 Mb Ram. Would this speed Linux up ?? Or am i better keeping the swap partition. Stevo Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Linux Swap Partition
- Original Message - From: Derek Jennings [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, April 05, 2003 10:24 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] Linux Swap Partition On Saturday 05 Apr 2003 10:04 am, Netsonic wrote: Something Ive never actually looked at with regard to Linux. Is it possible to just not use a swap partition at all. The intended machine has 768 Mb Ram. Would this speed Linux up ?? Or am i better keeping the swap partition. Stevo A swap partition is not compulsory. In fact if you run Knoppix, by default it does not use swap. If you have more memory than your applications demand then you do not need it. Will it speed things up, not having swap? No. derek Ah! That could prove interesting for a dual or triple boot scenario. Ive always assumed a swap was needed for every installation when it comes to linux. My aim in the near future is to actually dual boot with Mandrake and the new Redhat if it proves suitable. Ive always liked them both but can never decide if one is better than the other Stevo Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Hard disk repartitioning-II
- Original Message - From: Arthur Kng [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, April 04, 2003 3:45 PM Subject: [newbie] Hard disk repartitioning-II Hey all, First up, thank you everyone for your prompt help. you've really made it easier for me. reading all your posts i've come up with a plan which goes like this: ( just to remind you, i have a 20GB disk, C drive:5GB having WinME(FAT32), D drive: 15GB having all my data(FAT32), 128MB RAM ) 1)back up all my data at a friends place. fdisk and delete all existing partitions. make a primary partition of 10GB on which i'll load the Windows OS and which will also have the data which i want to access from Win and Linux. 2)in the 10GB thats left i'll have 4GB for '/' where i'll load Linux. 3)the remaining 6GB will be the '/home' partition, which will have the linux only data. 4)mine is a desktop machine for normal home use. at any given time i run atmost (browser+mp3player) or (a programming IDE + mp3player) etc. now i have 128MB of RAM so i'm thinking of doing away with the swap partition but i'm not too sure about this. so if i'm wrong please do tell me. so in short: PRIMARY PARTITION: Windows (FAT32)-10GB /dev/hda1 EXTENDED PARTITION /dev/hda2 LOGICAL PARTITION 1 LINUX OS-4GB /dev/hda5 LOGICAL PARTITION 2 LINUX /home-6GB /dev/hda6 i know this is a long way to do it but this way i avoid having 2 FAT32 partitions (one for Win OS and the other for my data) and have a substantial space for the 'Linux only data' partition. now i would like to know what you all think about this. if i'm doing wrong please do tell as i'm just starting out on Linux. thank you for your help. AK You may like to add your linux swap partition to that list Stevo Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] slowing down burner to prevent overheating
- Original Message - From: joe [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: mandrake newbie [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, April 05, 2003 3:25 AM Subject: [newbie] slowing down burner to prevent overheating I have a LiteON 40x12x48 which seems to be crashing my comp after watching a movie for half an hour or so. Pretty sure this is a heat problem as it gets almost too hot to touch. Anyone know how to slow it down to a reasonable rate, or who could point me in the right direction for finding this info? Anyone tired of (deliberately) poorly designed hardware and firmware? (should be a separate topic I know but...) TIA for helpful advice. Just a thought... If the unit is getting that hot, have you checked your case fans/cooling to see if there is a problem. Maybe your system fan speed reports etc?? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Re: Mandrake 9.1 Icon Problem
- Original Message - From: Martin Foster [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, April 03, 2003 12:58 PM Subject: [newbie] Re: Mandrake 9.1 Icon Problem On Thursday 03 Apr 2003 10:03 am, Netsonic wrote: Hi everybody. I have downloaded and tried to install Mandrake 9.1. The install itself runs OK, but when I load up KDE, there are no desktop icons whatsoever. All the previous Mandrake versions I used had a handful of icons there for things like 'Home', 'CD Rom' etc in the top left hand corner of the screen. Also when the KDE loads, the mouse pointer changes to an egg-timer type pointer as if its waiting for something to finish. It stays like this for 5 or 6 minutes, and then still no desktop icons. The menus and taskbar are available and work OK. Right clicking somewhere in the middle of the desktop does nothing, whereas there used to be a context menu appeared for things like desktop configuration. Gnome loads with the icons OK, just nothing for KDE. Has anybody else experienced this ?? Yes, I experienced this the first time I installed 9.1 In my haste to install it, I overlooked adding a user and so therefore I was running as root. The solution that worked for me was to create a user and then login as that user. As you should know, the root desktop is different to a user desktop :-) -- Martin Foster FidoNet - 2:250/501.2 http://befido.webhop.org Thanks, I will certainly give that a try later. I find it hard to believe, when all the other versions gave me the same set of icons on the root desktop though. Incidentally, Im downloading the ISOs again as I also suspect it may be a corrupted disc, though unfortunately I have no way of knowing which one. Oh well! Stevo Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
