Re: [newbie] partition trouble
You really have eight swap partitions? This isn't going to help stability at all. First of all, I seriously doubt it was a lack of memory that made your computer lock up. I can say for sure that while Netscape is not the most stable of beasts, it is useable on my meager 64MB RAM + 80MB swap. A gigabyte of swap is way too much overkill. Next time netscape locks up, see if you can kill it individually before you have to reset your computer. Try Ctrl+Alt+Bkspc to kill X; this may help, even if X doesn't seem to be responding. -Matt Stegman [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Thu, 9 Dec 1999, raymond borowiak wrote: While downloading Netscape 4.7 for linux, my comp froze and I had to reinstall. Even though I tried fsck.ext2 on the first partition and recovered but my second partition was not recoverable. Hence when I reinstalled from my mandrake CD-Rom ver 6.0, used one partition for native and 8 partitions for swap. As follows on a 2 gig HD 1gig to / and the rest divided to the 8 swap parti- tions. My Question is, is this sufficient so that down- loads will not lock up my computer, which is linux only?
RE: [newbie] partition trouble
MS Word 6.0/95: Schallert, et al-6.0.doc HTML: Schallert, et al.htm ** Paul L. Kaplan, Ph.D., M.B.A. Program Manager, Neurosciences Creative BioMolecules (www.creativebio.com http://www.creativebio.com ) Suite 2400 101 Huntington Avenue Boston, MA 02199 Ph: 617-912-2972 Fx: 617-912-2991 e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: raymond borowiak [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, December 09, 1999 3:45 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:[newbie] partition trouble Greetings, While downloading Netscape 4.7 for linux, my comp froze and I had to reinstall. Even though I tried fsck.ext2 on the first partition and recovered but my second partition was not recoverable. Hence when I reinstalled from my mandrake CD-Rom ver 6.0, used one partition for native and 8 partitions for swap. As follows on a 2 gig HD 1gig to / and the rest divided to the 8 swap parti- tions. My Question is, is this sufficient so that down- loads will not lock up my computer, which is linux only? __ Do You Yahoo!? Thousands of Stores. Millions of Products. All in one place. Yahoo! Shopping: http://shopping.yahoo.com Schallert, et al-6.0.doc Schallert, et al.htm
RE: [newbie] partition trouble
Mea culpa! ** Paul L. Kaplan, Ph.D., M.B.A. Program Manager, Neurosciences Creative BioMolecules (www.creativebio.com http://www.creativebio.com ) Suite 2400 101 Huntington Avenue Boston, MA 02199 Ph: 617-912-2972 Fx: 617-912-2991 e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: raymond borowiak [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, December 09, 1999 3:45 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:[newbie] partition trouble Greetings, While downloading Netscape 4.7 for linux, my comp froze and I had to reinstall. Even though I tried fsck.ext2 on the first partition and recovered but my second partition was not recoverable. Hence when I reinstalled from my mandrake CD-Rom ver 6.0, used one partition for native and 8 partitions for swap. As follows on a 2 gig HD 1gig to / and the rest divided to the 8 swap parti- tions. My Question is, is this sufficient so that down- loads will not lock up my computer, which is linux only? __ Do You Yahoo!? Thousands of Stores. Millions of Products. All in one place. Yahoo! Shopping: http://shopping.yahoo.com
RE: [newbie] partition trouble (Or I smell a rat)
On 10-Dec-1999 Kaplan, Paul wrote: Mea culpa! ** Paul L. Kaplan, Ph.D., M.B.A. Program Manager, Neurosciences Creative BioMolecules (www.creativebio.com http://www.creativebio.com ) Suite 2400 101 Huntington Avenue Boston, MA 02199 Ph: 617-912-2972 Fx: 617-912-2991 e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] [ Stuff snipped.. Including a few pioneering rodents ;-) ] Oops indeed. Have to admit I couldn't help myself and took a peek at the attachments... Wow. Please remind me not to come back in my next life as a rat... I guess it's for a 'good cause' at the end of the day, but it was chilling, if fascinating (and technical) reading ;-) To keep this on topic: Abiword (http://www.abiword.com) loaded the MS doc file OK ;-) For those who didn't look at the attachment it was this month's 'Which Holiday Guide for Rats'. They voted against staying at this particular lab. The accommodation was clean but a little unusual and the, um, health treatments for the guests verged on the 'vigorous' side. Sorry, couldn't help myself. Martin Curran -- Melinda: You Ok honey..? It's the dream again isn't it? Bill:Uh, yeah.. It's the penguin. Damn that penguin!
