Re: Getting started
I would start by following the mkswap man page. However, I believe you have a
problem that I can not figure out from your mail because the installation
procedure should do it for you. Actually, I do not completely understand how
you were partitioning the disk. What exactly is a Linux partition? Is it /usr
+ /home + /var?
Hopefully Others can give you better guides.
> Thanks to all who advised on my (newbie) project of putting Linux on an
> old 386 with 4M RAM and 120M disk. Perverse, but I'm doing it, and I
> have the disk-image floppies.
>
> As a first try, I made these partitions:
> hda1 swap 16Mb
> hda2 temp root 2Mb
> hda3 Linux 98Mb
>
> Problem: when I get to "Initialize and Activate a Swap Partition," I
> consistently get the error message "swap could not be activated, device
> or resource busy." (I noticed, by the way, that when I exited from the
> boot process after making the partitions, there was a message like
> "swapon failed"; but the system let me proceed to dbootstrap.) Finally I
> said I'd do without a swap partition, and was able to go on to
> initialize the Linux paritition and so on.
>
> What should I do to get my swap partition working?
>
> Thanks as before.
>
> Charles Hartman
> Poet in Residence
> Connecticut College
> cohar@conncoll.edu
>
>
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