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  Re: Datsville overview
 
Oh; wasn't paying attention. If you've actually got an unused partition, skip the dd stuff, and just mkswap it. (25 years ago, 15-Sep-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
 
  Re: Datsville overview
 
(...) You can do it this way: dd if=/dev/zero of=swapfile bs=1024 count=768000 mkswap -v1 swapfile sync swapon swapfile Note that on a 2.0 series kernel, the max size of a swap space is 128M. You'll need something 2.2 or so. (25 years ago, 15-Sep-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
 
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  Re: Datsville overview
 
Kevin Loch: (...) Roughly the same would work in Linux. The problem is to format and mount the partition. Play well, Jacob ---...--- -- E-mail: sparre@cats.nbi.dk -- -- Web...: <URL:(URL) -- ---...--- (25 years ago, 14-Sep-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
 
  Re: Datsville overview
 
Kevin Loch <kloch@opnsys.com> wrote in message news:FI2Iy0.n4r@lugnet.com... (...) I added a link to the Datsville page: (URL) don't have an ftp utility yet. -John Van (25 years ago, 14-Sep-99, to lugnet.cad, lugnet.off-topic.geek)


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