Re: Swap Brainstorm (was Re: [Rule-list] Test of 0.6.3-small - the whole story)

[James]

On Mon, 25 Feb 2002 00:51:32 -0500
Devon <address@hidden> wrote:

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> On Monday 25 February 2002 12:37 am, James wrote:
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> > > Don't try this anywhere near a production box, please? ;)
> >
> > Uh,,, the production box is about 3 feet away... far enough? 
Seriously
> > though think it might work on that laptop I was trying out earlier? 
If
> > so I'll bite.
> 
> It may work. Worth a shot at any rate, no?
> Don't forget, before you load the updates disk, switch to <vt2> and:
> (This is for 2 disk installs)
> mknod /dev/hdb b 3 64
> mknod /dev/hdb1 b 3 65
> mkswap /dev/hdb1
> swapon /dev/hdb1
> 
> For a single disk, I was going to try running fdisk, creating the 
> partitions, and then enabling them as above.
> The mknod major and minor values for hda would be 3 0
> hda1 would be 3 1
> I haven't a clue if this will work on a single disk yet. That's a
project 
> for tomorrow evening at this point.
> 
> Good luck, let us know how it goes.

Will do and oh yes it will be a single disk try... I can only have one
disk in the laptop.  So the bullet will be a biggie...

James

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