From: yseeley@leland.Stanford.EDU (Yonik Christopher Seeley) Subject: Re: SLS 1.03: Installation and configuration [with fixes] (long) Date: Mon, 23 Aug 1993 00:37:27 GMT
In article <930822.090911.1w1.rusnews.w165w@whiffer.mese.com> jgeorge@whiffer.mese.com (Joe George) writes:
>andreas@knobel.gun.de (Andreas Klemm) writes:
>
>> iain.lea@anl433.erlm.siemens.de (Iain Lea) writes:
>>
>>>This article lists the problems I encountered installing and
>>>configuring SLS 1.03 and the fixes I made (when possible).
>
>2. SLS 1.03 happily set up a swapfile for me on boot, and I thought that
>was just peachy until I noticed that the distribution came with
>/dev/swap linked to /dev/hda1, and in the process of giving me a little
>swap space, Linux happily trashed over 100MB in my MSDOS partition.
>Thanks, guys.
I don't know why this happens. To my knowledge, the SLS installation
does not use /dev/swap, nor does anything else that I can see. I'm
not sure why it is there. I just checked my installation, and sure
enough, /dev/swap was linked to /dev/hda1 (my DOS partition). I
have had no problems however. I did change the link just to be
safe though.
Anyone out there know what /dev/swap is for? Is it just a convenience
so one can do a "swapon /dec/swap"?
- Yonik Seeley
yseeley@cs.stanford.edu
>
>It is worth popping into another virt console and watching the 1.03
>install to make sure that these things dont hose your machine as badly
>as it hosed mine.
>
>Joe
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