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

[James]

On Mon, 25 Feb 2002 01:24:12 -0500
Devon <address@hidden> wrote:

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> On Monday 25 February 2002 01:14 am, James wrote:
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> > but before I do let me make sure I'm correct.
> >
> > When it asks for the update disk ctrl-alt-f2
> 
> Just alt-f2
> 
> > then fdisk /dev/hda
> > mk partitions.
> 
> Not yet, you need to create the device files first.
> 
> > mknod /dev/hda 3 0
> > mknod /dev/hda1 3 1 (swap)

Stops at this point saying mknod command not found.  Same for ls and cd. 
Is this because I'm using the pcmcia disk instead of boot.img?

James

> 
> Those should be enough, I wouldn't make the device files for the others.
> Now you can run fdisk.
> Then mkswap /dev/hda1
> swapon /dev/hda1
> 
> > ctl-alt-f1
> 
> alt-f1
> 
> > insert updates disk
> > continue.
> 
> Correct. 
> The only reason to do this before the updates, is to have more memory 
> available. Performance on <vt2> will drop rapidly once the updates are 
> read and anaconda goes to work.
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