RE: Apt-get behaving badly

["Steve Dondley" <stevedondley@attbi.com>]

> Also make sure you've run mkswap on the device you're trying to use as a
> swap device.

Aha!  Problem solved!  I did the following based on a web page I just found:


To set up a swap partition:
# mkswap -f /dev/hda2

To activate the swap area:
# swapon /dev/hda2


You see, my old swap partition was on hda5 and changing it to hda2 screwed
everything up.  Now I just need to find where in the system init process the
swap drive is turned on and then I should be good to go.

Phew!  Does everyone learn Linux this way---by screwing something up and
then flailing around for a couple of hours before you learn how to fix it?

Thanks for all the help.  Couldn't have done it without you.