Re: unable to install anything
On 02 Aug 2004, Curtis Vaughan wrote:
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> Of course I set up a swap partition. This computer has been running for
> years with a swap partition. Tomorrow I can tell you exactly what size I
> even gave it. However, I recently decided to update to sarge. I thought
> everything was running fine. But I noticed it seemed to crash at times.
> Something totally unexpected for Linux, particularly Debian. Only now
> have I noticed that I seemingly have no swap partition. So, what could
> have possibly cause the swap to disappear when upgrading to sarge
> (testing)?
>
Did you also change to a 2.6 kernel? When I did this recently I found my
swap partition was not being recognized. I ran mkswap on it and things
went back to normal.
Anthony
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