On Wed, 2002-04-03 at 03:22, nik gaffney wrote: > you can try using BootX, which loads as an extension from MacOS, then > choosing linux from the dialog. this means launching macos every time you > want to boot debian.. Only on Oldworld pmacs. > another probelm you might have is that debian (and most unix) requires a swap > partition (virtual memory) to work best, unless you have lots of RAM. im not > sure exactly how to install debian w/out a swap partition. dd if=/dev/zero of=/.swapfile bs=1M count=128 chmod 600 /.swapfile mkswap /.swapfile swapon /.swapfile I think you can put /.swapfile in fstab too /.swapfile none swap sw 0 0 -- David Stanaway
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