Re: [Fwd: Re: [Re: [[newbie] Swap space > 128 Mb?]]]

2000-03-12 Thread Vic
Well I would look for a crack for vmware on alt.linux.crackz , alt.linux.warez or see if you can trade or sell your current printer. On Sat, 11 Mar 2000, Wayne mewed: > Mike, > I have said it before and I will say it again. The more I use Linux, the > more I dread going back to Windoze. UNfort

Re: [Fwd: Re: [Re: [[newbie] Swap space > 128 Mb?]]]

2000-03-11 Thread Wayne
Mike, I have said it before and I will say it again. The more I use Linux, the more I dread going back to Windoze. UNfortunately I have a Windows printer (GUI) and it WILL NOT work under Linux. I have thought about gewtting VMWare but cannot afford to buy the license for version 2 which I need

Re: [Fwd: Re: [Re: [[newbie] Swap space > 128 Mb?]]]

2000-03-11 Thread Michael Scottaline
Wayne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > Mike, > I amended my lilo.conf file and put in the 128M bit. Worked like a charm, I can now open more windows, run more apps, and to more stuff that before > without the speed of my mcahine suffering. > > Thanks, > > Wayne ===

Fwd: Re: [Re: [[newbie] Swap space > 128 Mb?]]

2000-03-11 Thread Wayne
Mike, I amended my lilo.conf file and put in the 128M bit. Worked like a charm, I can now open more windows, run more apps, and to more stuff that before without the speed of my mcahine suffering. Thanks, Wayne On Thu, 17 Apr 2036, you wrote: > Wayne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On a

Re: [Re: [[newbie] Swap space > 128 Mb?]]

2000-03-10 Thread Jaguar
Did you take into account shared mem??? 128MB-(shared vid mem)=???MB HTH Jaguar Wayne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On a related topic, why would my machine only detect 65MB of my RAM when I have 128 MB? When I did > try to change this manually, my machine crashed during boot. > > Wayne > >

Re: [[newbie] Swap space > 128 Mb?]

2000-03-10 Thread Lane Lester
> On a related topic, why would my machine only detect 65MB of my RAM > when I have 128 MB? When I did > try to change this manually, my machine crashed during boot. I'm not sure what you mean by "manually," but I had the same situation until I added the following line: append="mem=124M" above

Re: [[newbie] Swap space > 128 Mb?]

2000-03-10 Thread Alan Shoemaker
Jaguar.the 128 mb limit was for the 2.0.x kernals and does not apply for the 2.2.x kernals. Alan Jaguar wrote: > > No idea why...but MDK 7.02 using the AUTO CONFIGURE will make a single 250 MB > /swap on my 13 GB drive...I only have 64 MB Ram. > So I guess your theory is not entirely true.

Re: [[newbie] Swap space > 128 Mb?]

2000-03-10 Thread Vidyut Luther
und 40,000 hits/month on el website. - Original Message - From: "Jaguar" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, March 10, 2000 10:18 AM Subject: Re: [[newbie] Swap space > 128 Mb?] > No idea why...but MDK 7.02 using the AUTO CONFIGURE will ma

Re: [[newbie] Swap space > 128 Mb?]

2000-03-10 Thread Jaguar
No idea why...but MDK 7.02 using the AUTO CONFIGURE will make a single 250 MB /swap on my 13 GB drive...I only have 64 MB Ram. So I guess your theory is not entirely true... Jaguar "Lothar Mandrake" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have read that a swap space partition cannot be larger than 12

Re: [newbie] Swap space > 128 Mb?

2000-03-09 Thread Mark Irving
Yeah I was puzzled about the swap space deal too. So I did some research on it. It appears that the older versions of Linux would not use a swap space larger than 128MB although you could create more than one swap partition. The newer distros (not sure when) can have up to a GB of swap space. I ha

Re: [[newbie] Swap space > 128 Mb?]

2000-03-09 Thread Michael Scottaline
"Lothar Mandrake" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have read that a swap space partition cannot be larger than 128 Mb, > but at the same time it should apparently be 1.5 times the RAM size? Since > I have 192 Mb RAM, I guess I should have around 300 Mb swap space? Is this > correct? How c