Re: New alpha owner, (ab)user
On Fri, 13 Nov 1998, Scott Bailey wrote:
> ...what do I do with MILO to get this sucker to auto boot? I have left a
> 3.46 meg partition at the top of the drive because that is recomended in
> the README file.
Should be in the README file that is with the boot disks, or at
least it was there when I installed it a few months ago. Basically, you
put milo onto this partion, and then setup the ARC loader to boot milo
with a few command line options that tell milo how to boot Linux. I can
give the gory details, but it really should be in the README file, down
towards the end. Either that, or someone else who can rattle it off the
top of your head can help you. :)
> ...Also, what size swap space should I have? I put it at 128 megs for
> the moment, the max? Is this silly, or what?
With only 16MB of RAM, that is probably a good sized swap file.
Alphas need a lot more RAM (1.6x to 2x) than Intels to do the same thing,
so you will need that swap. I would recommend upgrading to a minimum of
64MB of RAM as soon as possible. There has been many people who felt thier
UDBs were very slow until they got the RAM up to 64MB. After that, it runs
pretty well, with little swap access.
The max for swap files on Linux I think is 256MB per swap file,
but I might be wrong.
Hope this helps!
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