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Anthony L. Lang, Ph.D.              6050 Bidwell Trail, Unit 22
Conservation Biologist               Mississauga, ON, Canada, L5V 1V6

Other than that, you need to give ALOT more information about your
system and what you're attempting to setup.

-L

Quote:> I bought a copy of Caldera OpenLinux a few of weeks ago and have been
> trying ever since to install it.  Every time I try to install it,
> Partition Magic tells me that it can't install a swap partition

    -Jerry
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Jerry Lapham, Monroe, OH

Written Wednesday, August 25, 1999 - 04:03 PM (EDT)
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MR/2 Ice tag:  I'm not a Windows user, but I play one on TV.

: I bought a copy of Caldera OpenLinux a few of weeks ago and have been trying
: ever since to install it.  Every time I try to install it, Partition Magic
: tells me that it can't install a swap partition (I want to keep Windows on
: my machine).  I have tried calling their help line, but they want me to pay
: $50 per hour just to get the damn thing to install properly!!

Hmm. Exclamation marks. Usually the sign of the clueless.
Fortunately there are only two.

What does making a swap file or partition entail?

1. Finding the space.
If you are cutting up your disk into partitions
with fdisk or so, then make a 128 MB partition (or so)
that is going to be your swap partition.
Give it type 82 (hex).
If you already made partitions, and repartitioning
is too cumbersome, use a swapfile instead, say by
        dd if=/dev/zero of=/swapfile bs=4096 count=10000
(for a 40 MB partition).

No Partition Magic is needed, and I don't know whether
Partition Magic knows about Linux swap partitions.
Maybe recent versions do.

2. Marking the thing as swap.
Say
        mkswap /swapfile
or
        mkswap /dev/sdc7
(if your swap partition was the seventh partition on
the third SCSI disk) - get these names from fdisk.

3. Taking it into use.
Say
        swapon /swapfile
or
        swapon /dev/sdc7

Part 3 is something that you don't have to do yourself
once you have done step 4:

4. Telling /etc/fstab about it
Add a line
        /dev/sdc7 swap swap
to /etc/fstab.
On the next boot, the command "swapon -a" that probably
is found in one of your boot scripts will automatically
take the swap space into use.