[Rule-list] Ok,,, but what if you don't have a cdrom

[Devon]

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On Sunday 24 February 2002 02:37 am, James wrote:

> Had a thought.  Someone had said they managed to use a floppy as the
> "swap" partition from the get go. What if on a really low memory boxen
> you used a small (say 20 or 30 megs) dos partition on the hdd as the
> temporary swap. On a laptop this would really work well as you could
> (after install) use the partition as the hibernation partition. (since
> most require a dos partition at the end of the drive for this purpose)
> Even if this section was on a desktop this area could still be used as
> data storage or even reformated for use as a linux partition.

I'm going to look into the possibility of getting some swap turned on 
earlier. I did manage to use a floppy as swap. It was an interesting 
experience, to say the least. ;)
However, to the best of my knowledge, the swap must be formated as such. 
I don't believe a dos partition will do the trick.

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