[Gllug] Help with Red Hat 8.0 install on Win 98

[John Hearns]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Robert Boulter" <robboulter at hotmail.com>
To: <gllug at linux.co.uk>
Sent: Tuesday, July 15, 2003 12:31 PM
Subject: Re: [Gllug] Help with Red Hat 8.0 install on Win 98


> Hi Steve,
>   I have continued as you have suggested and mounted root on /dev/hda5.
An
> error is returned advising me to create a swap partition.  Luckily I have
a
> third partition /dev/hda3 and have mounted swap here.  However it still

I think that's where the problem is coming.
A swap partition is not a normal disk partition, formatted as (say) ext3 or
Windows vfat,
and then called /swap.
In Disk Druid, choose 'Linux swap' as the partition type.
(Sorry if this isn't EXACTLY correct as I don't have Disk Druid running in
front of me).

A swap partition is used when your system chooses to 'park' unused areas of
memory
which it is not using, freeing up real RAM for work.
Windows systems used swap too, but if I'm not wrong commonly use a disk file
on the C: drive.
But the common thing to do on Linux is to choose a separate disk
partition, about twice the size of your RAM.

Again, for more advanced users people would argue that this size is a bit
outdated, and also
on a very very busy server swap should be on a separate disk to help
performance.


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