Re: Question of Swap

Vahis wrote:

Clois Beckwith wrote:
I am posting to this group in hopes someone can walk me through
why and how to install a SWAP partition.


Didn't you set it up during the initial installation? It's a
default stage there.


Vahis

It would not setup automatically the swap, and I tried setting to
Swap and to /swap, neither were accepted, so I just loaded
everything into the root directory / with a boot file of 950mb.

That is the problem!

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