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

[James]

On Sun, 24 Feb 2002 07:02:30 -0500
Devon <devon at tuxfan.homeip.net> wrote:

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

I was thinking along the lines of this howto
http://linuxdocs.org/HOWTOs/mini/Swap-Space.html  It talks about using a
dos partition as a swap space for both windwoze and linux on a dual boot
drive. 
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