From: Benjamin Harling (benj@s-link.escape.de)
Date: 02/03/93 

From: benj@s-link.escape.de (Benjamin Harling)
Subject: Re: need help with swap space, 2nd try
Date: Wed, 3 Feb 1993 12:00:00 +0100

JLOWRY%CIH.HCUGE.CH@S-UUCP.ZER meinte am 01.02.93
zum Thema "need help with swap space, 2nd try":

> touch swapfile
> mkswap /swapfile 4000
> swpon /swapfile
>
> This didn't seem to work. I got messages complaining about the swapfile
> being bad. Can anybody help?

Try:
dd if=/dev/zero of=/swapfile bs=1024 count=4096
mkswap /swapfile 4096 (or something with createswap)
swapon /swapfile (put this one in your rc-file)

Good luck

Gruss Benjamin