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- From: ujlh@pool.info.sunyit.edu (James Henrickson)
- Subject: Re: A little linux xmas success story
- Message-ID: <1992Dec15.041422.26317@pool.info.sunyit.edu>
- Organization: State University of New York -- Institute of Technology
- References: <1992Dec12.170202.496@anl433.uucp> <1992Dec12.195027.5890@sol.UVic.CA>
- Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1992 04:14:22 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec12.195027.5890@sol.UVic.CA> pmacdona@sanjuan (Peter MacDonald) writes:
- >
- >From the readme:
- >] to boot from your harddrive. Note that if you have less than 4 Meg of RAM,
- >] you will need to make and activate a 4 Meg swap partition, prior to installation.
- >] For example, using /dev/hda3 for swap: "mkswap /dev/hda3 4096; swapon /dev/hda3"
- >
-
- I had a short (very short!) experience running Linux on a 386SX-25 with
- 2 MB, and I would like to add a little advice.
-
- Be sure you have "swapon" in your /etc/rc file before doing an "fsck".
- Otherwise, you'll probably run out of memory.
-
- (I experienced this with an older distribution of Linux that had "swapon"
- after "fsck". This may have already been corrected.)
-
- --
- Jim H.
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- * James L. Henrickson | "I don't need a signature, I need a job!"
- * ujlh@sunyit.edu | BSCS, December 1992
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