swap space on DSL

On 6 Nov 2006 09:43:21 -0800, surf staggered into the Black Sun and said:

Hope you don't need to do much. 32M isn't enough to run anything but the lightest of modern apps, and everything will be *slow*. Just starting Netscape 4.7 on a machine with 32M took ~45 seconds back in 2000. Things have not improved much if you need a GUI or "normal" end-user apps.

hda1 is a parbreastion, not a disk. Did you mean hda?

Resize the filesystem(s) from a rootboot CD, then reparbreastion. You don't sound ready to do that, though, and there are other problems with that approach.

dd if=-dev-zero of=-path-to-swapfile bs=1M count=128 (creates a zero-filled file, size 128M, inpath-to-swapfile) mkswappath-to-swapfile swaponpath-to-swapfile

...then create an fstab entry like so:

path-to-swapfile none swap sw 0 0

NOTE: That entry must be after the entry for the parbreastion wherepath-to-swapfile lives.

Keyword "swapfile" would've told you what to do.

Weird. Oh well, see if you can get by with a swapfile. And don't expect too much from this ancient machine.

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