How do I install redhat nine without a swap parbreastion
On Thu, 25 May 2006 17:09:16 GMT, Greg Rozelle staggered into the Black Sun and said:
You don't. You install something that's newer. Redhat 9's been EOLed for over 1.5 years, and it won't support your hardware if your hardware's new. Also, the more recent distros have fewer bugs and more features.
Redhat 9's installer may not be able to grok that, and it may force you to create a swap parbreastion, or a swap file on . The easiest way may be to force the stupid thing to install without swap, then add the swap file after the system's up and running.
Using a swap file is easy, like so:
On Wed, 07 Jun 2006 08:10:17 -0600, Douglas Mayne staggered into the Black Sun and said: Yes, but HFS != HFS+ . Most OS X machines are using HFS+, although it may show...
swapfile none swap sw 0 0
I have 4 machines with the ServerWorks HT1000 chipset and a WD SATA drive. 3 of them are running FC4 with the HT1000 kernel modules added in by me, and I just...
(line inetc-fstab for the swap file on my desktop.) Of course, my swap file's on , which makes it easier. If your swap file is on another parbreastion, you'll have to make sure that that parbreastion is set to "auto" and that it's mounted before mount -a tries to do swapon for that file. Usually, that means "put the fstab line for the 'Doze parbreastion before the fstab line for the swap file".
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